A day after his candidature was officially announced, M.K. Raghavan, the incumbent MP of Kozhikode, formally launched his election campaign on (March 9) Saturday.
District Congress Committee president K. Praveen Kumar and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) district president M.A. Razak accompanied him as he sought the blessings of writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair for his fourth consecutive innings as a Congress candidate in the constituency.
Even as his opponents Elamaram Kareem and M.T. Ramesh of the CPI(M) and the BJP respectively went out with their election campaigns formally, Raghavan was impeded by the lack of a formal announcement by the Congress Working committee. However, since the party had announced much earlier that the sitting MPs could get another chance, his candidature was almost certain.
