Muraleedharan wins his first assembly poll
May 13th, 2011 - 11:43 am ICT by IANSThiruvananthapuram, May 13 (IANS) Congress leader K. Muraleedharan, son of former Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran, Friday won his first assembly election after he defeated a Left-backed candidate in the Vattiyoorkavu seat of this capital district.
Muraleedharan defeated ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supported independent candidate Cheriyan Phillip by a margin of over 10,000 votes.
Muraleedharan has been having a bad run, being defeated in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the 2006 assembly polls and in the 2004 assembly by-election.
After being suspended from the Congress for six years in 2005, he returned to the party fold early this year, soon after his father passed away in December 2010.
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