Thiruvananthapuram: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) suffered a setback in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation elections, with its candidate IP Binu losing the Kunnukuzhi ward to Congress nominee Mary Pushpam A.

Binu, a member of the CPM Palayam Area Committee, was defeated in a ward of high symbolic importance to the party. Kunnukuzhi ward houses the AKG Study and Research Centre, a key ideological institution of the CPIM.

The CPM also faced defeat in the neighbouring Palayam ward, where the new AKG Centre, which functions as the party’s state committee office, is located. Congress candidate Shirley S emerged victorious in the ward, dealing another blow to the LDF in the state capital.

IP Binu had earlier represented Kunnukuzhi as a corporation councillor and had served as chairman of th

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