The scrutiny of all nominations received for the Kollam Lok Sabha constituency was completed on Friday.
While three were disqualified based on the prescribed norms, currently the list has 12 eligible candidates. Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] dummy candidate S.R. Arunbabu and Sasikala Rao, the dummy candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were eliminated from the list after nomination of party candidates were accepted.
Independent candidate M.S. Manushankar was also disqualified as he failed to submit sufficient documents. CPI(M) candidate M. Mukesh, independent candidate S. Suresh Kumar, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) candidate Twinkle Prabhakaran, independent candidates N. Jayarajan, J. Naushad Sharif, Marxist Communist Party of India (United) candidate P. Krishnammal, Ambedkarite Party of India’s Jose, BJP’s G. Krishnakumar, BSP’s V.A. Vipinlal, Bharatiya Jawan Kisan Party’s K. Pradeep Kumar, independent candidate Premachandran Nair and Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate N. K. Premachandran are the candidates in the list.