Kerala civic polls News

This segment of Zee News brings to you important events that are lined up for the day. 

Kerala civic polls: The Left grouping won in 10,338 seats as against 8,846 seats for the Congress led UDF and 1,244 seats for the BJP.

As the opposition Left Democratic Front maintained an impressive lead in local body elections in Kerala, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday said it "in no way reflects a wave in favour of the Left".

In Kerala civic polls, Congress-led UDF suffered a setback in the civic elections as CPI-M -led LDF won a majority of local bodies while BJP made inroads.

The Left opposition on Saturday surged ahead in the Kerala civic polls, while the ruling Congress-led UDF was on the back foot, initial trends showed. 

Repolling began in 114 booths in Malappuram and Thrissur districts Friday morning after Electronic Voting Machines developed snags in the second phase of local body polls.

Campaigning ended on Tuesday on a peaceful note in seven districts that will go to polls on November 5 in final phase of local body elections in Kerala.

Former defence minister AK Antony said here on Monday there is no alternative to the Congress-led UDF in Kerala, and added it will emerge victorious in the polls to the state's civic bodies.

The battle for civic polls in Kerala hotted up with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy terming CPI(M)'s anti-BJP stand as "opportunistic", a charge Left leader Pinarayi Vijayan countered saying Congress had always showed a "soft" approach towards the saffron part.

With just over a fortnight left for civic polls in Kerala, widely seen as a dress rehearsal for Assembly Elections due in May 2016, political parties are racing against time to finalise candidates for more than 21,000 wards.