CPI(M) leader M.M. Mani, MLA, homespun election rhetoric has often backfired on him.
On Tuesday, another speech he gave in Idukki appeared on track to boomerang on the veteran leader and the ruling party.
Mr. Mani allegedly used an arguably disparaging and blatantly sexist remark to portray the United Democratic Front (UDF) incumbent and the Congress candidate from the Idukki Lok Sabha constituency, Dean Kuriakose, as an ineffectual MP, and an obsessive dandy.