Ahead of the upcoming parliamentary election, the fight for political dominance between the two Kerala Congress factions over the Kottayam Lok Sabha seat seems to have already started.
Setting the tone for an acrimonious fight between the rival groups, the two sides locked horns over a political graffiti on Monday. The episode unfolded as the Kerala Congress put up a graffiti on a roadside wall at Adichira near here. Even though a formal announcement on the allocation of the Kottayam seat is yet to be made, the KC workers put up their graffiti, merely urging voters to support the United Democratic Front (UDF).
Just as the graffiti, which appeared long before the conclusion of seat-sharing talks within the United Democratic Front, caught widespread media attention, the Kerala Congress (M) entered the scene. Arguing that the wall belonged to a close relative of Thomas Chazhikadan, the sitting MP of Kottayam, a team of KC(M) workers took over the wall and replaced the rival’s graffiti with their own.
