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The Hindu
2 days ago
- General
- The Hindu
2.49 lakh students receive first allotment
As many as 2.49 lakh students received allotment on publication of the first allotment list in the main phase of Plus One higher secondary single-window admission on Monday. This is higher than the number of students who received trial allotment a few days ago (2,47,428). The total number of applicants for the first allotment was 4,63,686. Of them, 2,49,540 received allotment. The number of seats, including additional seats for the differently abled, available was 3,18,574. The number of seats vacant after the first allotment is 69,034. The total number of seats available for the trial allotment was 3,17,583. Like in the trial allotment, slightly fewer than half the applicants in Malappuram received allotment. The district that had the maximum number of applicants – 82,498. The number of seats allotted was 40,566, while the total number of seats available was 57,633. The total number of seats vacant is 17,067. The number of applications received in Kozhikode was 48,238. The total number of seats available was 31,448 and those allotted was 23,840. As many as 7,608 seats were vacant. In Palakkad, 22,652 of the 45,893 applicants received allotment. There were 27,454 seats available in the district. This left 4,802 seats in the district. Twenty-seven seats remained vacant in the general category after the first allotment, 268 in the Ezhava/Thiyya category, and 221 in the Muslim category. As many as 3,740 seats were vacant in the Latin Catholic/Anglo-Indian category. In the Scheduled Caste category, 14,098 seats were vacant, while in the Scheduled Tribe category, it was 27,094. As many as 6,121 of the 8,199 sport quota seats were allotted. Now, only 2,078 seats remain vacant. Of the 1,529 model residential school quota seats, 1,314 were allotted; 215 seats were vacant. Admissions will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday and continue till 5 p.m. on June 5. Candidates who get the first option in this allotment should remit the fee and take permanent admission. Those who get other options may take temporary or permanent admission.
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
BJP fields Kerala Congress leader as party's candidate in Nilambur
Ending weeks of uncertainty, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national leadership in New Delhi on Sunday fielded advocate Mohan George as the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) candidate for the Nilambur Assembly byelection. Mr. George, who entered politics as a leader of the Kerala Students Congress (KSC), was a close associate of the late founder of the Kerala Congress (B) [KC(B)], R. Balakrishna Pillai, for long. He later switched to several Kerala Congress parties and joined the Kerala Congress, a United Democratic Front (UDF) ally. Voters' orientation The BJP, which initially termed the bypoll at the fag end of the second Pinarayi Vijayan government as inconsequential, had realised that it could ill-afford to remain on the sidelines in the pivotal poll, widely reckoned an approximate point of reference to gauge the orientation of Kerala voters in the run-up to the 2026 Assembly polls. Nevertheless, questions about Mr. George's current political leanings prompted the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) campaigns in Nilambur to accuse each other of 'gifting' the BJP a candidate from the Christian settler farmer community, a significant electoral bloc in the constituency. (The BJP had garnered 17,000 votes in the Nilambur Assembly segment in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.) Kerala Congress leader Mons Joseph, MLA, denied the LDF's accusation that Mr. George was a party member. He said Mr. George had switched allegiance to the Kerala Congress (M), an LDF ally. The LDF countered it by publishing photographs of Mr. George attending the Kerala Congress district convention in Malappuram last month. Communist Party of India (Marxist) State committee member and LDF's candidate for Nilambur bypoll M. Swaraj said the BJP found the UDF a favourite hunting ground to poach for ideologically ambiguous leaders, and Mr. George was the latest. BJP membership Mr. George is a Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church member, an Oriental Protestant Christian denomination. He said he would soon accept the BJP's primary membership and file his nomination papers on Monday. Mr. George said BJP leader Noble Mather had invited him to join the party. He said the Bharath Dharma Jana Sena, a BJP ally widely perceived as the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam's political arm with sizable pockets of influence in the backwards class Ezhava community, had declined the Nilambur seat and suggested his name instead. (Girish Mekkatu, a BDJS leader, garnered 12,000 votes in the 2016 Assembly elections in Nilambur. In 2021, the BJP's vote share in the constituency had dwindled to 8,500 when the party pitched its candidate T.K. Ashok Kumar.)
The Hindu
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
BJP national leadership fields KC(J) leader as the party's candidate in the Nilambur Assembly by-election
Ending weeks of uncertainty, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national leadership in New Delhi on Sunday (June 1, 2025) fielded Advocate Mohan George, a veteran leader of the Kerala Congress (Joseph) [KC(J)], a long-time ally of the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, as the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) candidate in the June 19 Assembly by-election in the Nilambur constituency of Malappuram district. The BJP State leadership, which had initially termed the by-election at the fag end of the second Pinarayi Vijayan government politically inconsequential, had 'poached' Mr. George from the UDF fold at the last minute, possibly with an eye on the traditionally pro-UDF Christian settler-farmer votes, a significant electoral bloc, in the Nilambur Assembly constituency. Mr. George told reporters in Malappuram that he would accept BJP's primary membership from the party's State President, Rajiv Chandrasekhar, and submit his nomination on Monday (June 2, 2025). Mr. George was active in the UDF politics in Malappuram and North Kerala, starting as a Kerala Students Union (KSU) activist. Later, Mr. George threw in his lot with KC[J], founding chairperson P.J. Joseph, and served on the party's State committee. Mr. George, who is a member of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, an oriental protestant denomination, stated that the BJP had approached him through Advocate Noble Mathew, a BJP leader hailing from the Kottayam district, after the Bharth Dharma Jana Sena, an NDA ally widely perceived as the political arm of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (Yogam) [SNDP], a social organisation with deep roots in the backward class Ezhava community in Kerala, declined the seat. Mr. George said Girish Mekkatu, a BDJS leader who garnered 12,000 votes in the 2016 Assembly elections in Nilambur, also proposed his name. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the BJP candidate, Advocate T.K. Ashok Kumar, won 8,595 votes.
New Indian Express
18-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
‘Tharoor may have his own opinion, but it should be in line with party'
As the new UDF convener, what are your priorities ahead of two decisive elections? The primary responsibility is to strengthen UDF by working closely with various social groups. In the 2025 local body elections as well as the 2026 assembly polls, I have to bring UDF into power. Priority is to resolve existing issues and move ahead. We will break the media propaganda of a third Pinarayi Vijayan government. Prospects of a third LDF government gather momentum due to UDF's internal weakness... The KPCC reorganisation was carried out to strengthen the Congress. When we complete our task, you will find out that there is no truth in such propaganda. As an immediate plan, I'll try to bring everyone together. It's said Anto Antony's affinity with the Pentecostal Church cost him the KPCC president post. Is it so? I don't know. What was the compulsion for the Congress to appoint a Christian as KPCC president? The decision was not mine (smiles). We are asking your opinion as a Congress leader… The Congress party has a larger perspective on how to move forward. On the basis of that perspective, people are chosen to lead the party. It isn't mandatory that a leader from the Christian community must be the KPCC president. Until now, KPCC presidents were from the Ezhava community. Was the leadership change a necessity in KPCC? AICC found out that organisational work wasn't going too well in the state. Based on AICC's report, a proposal was made that some changes be brought in the state party organisation. We weren't the ones who demanded a change. While leader of opposition (V D Satheesan) hasn't been changed, the KPCC president ( K Sudhakaran) who led the Congress to victory in bypolls was shown the door. Is it fair? I'm not the person to answer that. All of us accept decisions taken by the AICC. I wasn't aware of the decision earlier. Sudhakaran had said that certain crooked leaders are behind the change. Hope you are not among them… (Smiles) He won't say that about me. I don't have any guesses on who they are. You were among the probables for the KPCC president post. But a former president is said to have written to the high command that you are a bar owner, which scuttled your chances… You should ask the leader who you believe has written the letter. If some leader said that, it was immature. I started party work in 1970 as a KSU worker and came up through different positions. I wasn't an armchair politician but a partyman who worked hard. Has the fact that you are a bar owner ever posed a hurdle in your political career? My family had the bar even before I joined the KSU. But I have never slept on the street drunk. There are many people who have such a history. I don't wish to go into the details. There's a general perception that running a bar isn't a respectable profession… I have a question for them... a lot of bar licences have been given over the past few years. Those who argued vociferously and led strikes are now silent. Why is that?
Time of India
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Cong an anti-Ezhava party: Natesan
Kottayam: SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan stated that the Congress party has turned into an anti-Ezhava party for some time now. In an article written on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the famous ' Kozhenchery speech ' of C Kesavan, the Yogam general secretary said that the change in the state leadership of the Congress party is a clear picture of the neglect the Ezhava community is facing. The representation of the Ezhava community in the opposition in the state has reduced to a single person, he Yogam's constant raising of voice for the backward classes is infuriating political parties and some community organisations. They are waiting for a chance to ruin the SNDP Yogam, he said. The upper caste and minorities are standing together to grab the key positions in the govt sector while the Ezhavas are ruining themselves by fighting each other, Natesan added.
