How Left is trying to breach IUML-Congress’s Muslim support base in Malabar
From 1977 to 2009, Ponnani was represented continuously by the likes of G.M. Banatwala (seven times), Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait and E. Ahmed, before the delimitation gave the Left an opening of sorts. The 2009 experiment involved snatching the seat away from its ally CPI and backing an Independent jointly supported by Abdul Nazar Madani of … Read more