People will give us another mandate: Achuthanandan
April 13th, 2011 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANSAmbalapuzha (Kerala), April 13 (IANS) Star campaigner of Kerala’s ruling Left Democratic Front, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, Wednesday expressed confidence that the people will give the government another mandate.
Emerging from the polling booth here after casting his vote along with his wife and son, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) senior told reporters: “G. Sudhakaran (state minister for cooperation) will win from here. There is no doubt that across the state people will elect us again.”
A huge crowd was waiting outside the booth where Achuthanandan and his immediate family members were listed.
The chief minister had rushed back here to cast his vote in the morning from the Malampuzha constituency in Palakkad where he is contesting.
An hour before the voting ended at 5 p.m., the turnout appeared to be impressive and was expected to cross the all-time high of 72.27 percent recorded in the 2006 assembly polls.
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