When the State gets ready for the local bodies election, as many as 13,120 members of the Kudumbasree, the neighbourhood Women’s collective, are in the fray in the election.
All major political parties, including the Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well as the people's movements such as the High Range Protection Committee and Penkal Otrumai have selected candidates from the Kudumbasree movement for the forth coming poll, K.B, Valsala Kumari, Executive Director, State Kudumbasree Mission, told The Hindu .
As many as 105 chairpersons of the Community Development Societies (CDS) in different parts of the State under the Mission are in the fray, Dr. Valsalakumari said.
Close to 20 members from the supporting groups of the movement as well as many a member of the CDS, Area Development Societies, Scheduled Tribe Animators and district coordinators also have got a chance to try their luck in the election, P.P. Muhammed, district coordinator of the Mission said.
According to the data with the Mission, the highest number of women contesting the election is in Alappuzha district (1,429 members) and the lowest in Pathanamthitta district (275 members).
While 1,295 members are in the fray in Ernakulam district 1,265 members in Kottayam district.
Apart from this as many as 1,224 members in Palakkad district, 1,201 in Kannur, 1,200 in Malappuram, 1,100 women each in Kollam and Thrissur, 886 in Idukki, 610 in Wayanad, 580 in Kozhikode, 500 in Thiruvananthapuram and 475 in Kasaragod districts are also contesting the poll.
