When professionals don politician’s garb

Leaving behind their cosy workplaces, a number of candidates are sweating it out on the road canvassing votes and patiently listening to the wants and calls for of their voters.

Putting on maintain their profession as physician, engineer and businessman, a number of professionals have taken the political plunge within the State. They wave on the voters, search votes with folded fingers and make quick speeches at nook conferences. Life has been by no means been this hectic for these professionals.

S.S. Lal, a public well being professional, and J. Jacob, an orthopaedic surgeon, took the Hippocratic Oath to deal with the sick to one of the best of their skills many years in the past. These days, the 2 are slogging it out to win votes.

Dr. Lal, who’s the United Democratic Front candidate in Kazhakuttam, will tackle Kadakampally Surendran of the Left Democratic Front and Shobha Surendran of the National Democratic Alliance.

Dr. Jacob is searching for the favored mandate from the Thrikkakara constituency of Ernakulam district as an LDF-backed Independent candidate. Congress strongman P.T. Thomas and S. Saji of the BJP are his rivals.

Taking the plunge

After his profession with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, E. Sreedharan took the plunge and the BJP was fast to discipline him from Palakkad. It is to be seen whether or not Mr. Sreedharan who lead groups of engineers and technical specialists in constructing bridges and rail networks would be capable of make inroads in politics. Shafi Parambil of the UDF and C.P. Pramod of the LDF are his political rivals.

All via his skilled life as a police officer, Jacob Thomas had courted controversy. His service story ‘Sravukalkkoppam Neenthumpol’ had ruffled many feathers. He was suspended from service for his open criticism of the State authorities. Though it was anticipated that he would contest the 2019 Parliament election, his political debut got here two years later.

Mr. Thomas, who had made his appreciation for the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh as a “nation builder” recognized, is the NDA candidate in Irinjalakuda. R. Bindu of the LDF and Thomas Unniyadan of the UDF are the opposite key contestants.

New position

These days, S. Rajasekharan Nair speaks to the voters of Neyyattinkara not on his favorite matter, the hospitality sector, however about the necessity to work collectively for the State.

In his new discovered position as NDA candidate from the constituency, Mr. Nair is eager to let others find out about his plans for the constituency. S. Selvaraj of the UDF and K. Ansalan of the LDF are different key contestants.

Designing homes, workplaces and different constructions has been her ardour. When the LDF approached her with the supply to be the architect of its political marketing campaign in Aluva, Shelna Nishad fortunately accepted the brand new task.

An structure graduate, Ms. Nishad has arrange her workplace in Ernakulam and was a part of the designing crew of the Kochi metro. Anwar Sadath of the UDF and M.N. Gopi of the BJP are her political rivals within the constituency.

Twenty20, a non-political outfit, has additionally fielded fairly a number of professionals.

It is to be seen whether or not the voters would give these professionals an opportunity to redefine the political narrative of their respective constituencies. One wants to attend until May 2 for the reply.

(With inputs from Mini Muringatheri in Thrissur and R.K. Roshni and Tiki Rajwi Thiruvananthapuram)