KOCHI: At a time when candidates scramble to satisfy supporters and seal their votes, the UDF candidate in Kochi constituency Tony Chammany is the one one compelled to keep away from all of the fanfare due to a fateful Covid an infection.
Not giving in to adversities, Tony is reaching out to voters on their telephones from the isolation room the place he’s lodged, in a metropolis hospital. “I’m in fixed contact with occasion employees who’ve been campaigning on my behalf. I’m speaking to most variety of voters over telephone. Senior leaders of Congress have additionally been coordinating the efforts. They’ve prolonged all assist in realising my victory. I’m assured about my victory,” Chammany mentioned including that his quarantine interval will doubtless recover from after 14 days and his check end result changing into unfavourable.
It was on April 1 when the previous Kochi mayor examined optimistic for Covid-19. All his marketing campaign programmes needed to be abruptly stopped and the candidate instantly went into quarantine. Nonetheless, the Congress management was rising to the event to coordinate marketing campaign actions in Chammany’s absence. Hibi Eden, MP, was given the accountability to conduct door-to-door campaigning and street exhibits.
Chammany is pitted in opposition to LDF’s Ok J Maxi and NDA’s C G Rajagopal for the forthcoming meeting polls in Kochi constituency, which was shaped in 2011. Although Congress chief Dominic Presentation might register a thumping victory in 2011 after defeating CPM’s M C Josephine by a margin of 16,503
