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Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Poll heat rises in Palakkad as BJP trains guns on UDF MLA scandal

The BJP has fielded Sobha Surendran, who helped the party leap to the second position in the constituency for the first time in 2016, hoping to wrest the seat from the United Democratic Front. The Left Democratic Front has been finishing in third spot in the segment for the past three elections. Neither the UDF nor the LDF has announced candidates for the segment