No controversial figures in LDF list: Achuthanandan

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 2 (UNI) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member V S Achuthanandan today made it clear that the two controversial figures named by the LDF partners for the coming assembly elections, including Janata Dal (S) leader A Neelalohithadasan Nadar, will not be in the electoral fray.

Participating in a 'meet-the-press' programme here, the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing assembly said the Left Democratic Front had issued necessary directions in this regard to the respective parties to reconsider the decision of fielding such candidates.

Janata Dal(S) candidate contesting the Kovalam Assembly constituency A Neelalohithadasan Nadar was sentenced in a case of sexual harassment of a woman IAS officer at his office in the assembly complex in 1999.

Another LDF candidate in the Thiruvananthapuram West, Antony Raju of the Kerala Congress (J) was chargesheeted last week in a case pertaining to the manipulation of the court evidence in a drug trafficking case.

The incident relating to the case took place when Antony Raju was practicing as an advocate before he was elected to the Assembly from the Thiruvananthapuram West constituency.

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