LDF being challenged by UDF, BJP in Vaduthala East, its bastion for nearly half a century

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• UDF candidate in the Vaduthala East division of the Kochi Corporation Henry Austin during his campaigning on Thursday.
• | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The LDF has fielded O. P.
• Sunil, a former councillor and member of the Vaduthala local committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who scraped past the finishing line with a skin-of-the-teeth victory margin of 21 votes in 2015.
• However, he remains confident of a far easier victory this time by bettering the 558-vote margin registered by the LDF candidate in 2020.
• “I have completed three rounds of house visits, and I can feel the acceptance among the people.