Piravom by-poll: 21 booths identified as sensitive

 Friday, March 02, 2012: According to the recent police reports 21 polling booths have been identified as sensitive in the Piravom Assembly constituency for which the by-election has been scheduled on March 17.
However the Election Commission has decided to install CCTV cameras in these sensitive polling booths. The police have also asked the Election commission to tighten the security in these sensitive booths.
The by-poll was necessitated by the death of Kerala Congress (J) leader T.M. Jacob.
Death of Jacob in October had further eroded the elected strength of the UDF in the assembly to 71 including the Speaker against 68 seats held by the CPI(M)-led LDF opposition.
While the UDF has chosen Jaocob’s son Anoop Jacob as its nominee, LDF has decided to fielded M J Jacob, who narrowly lost to T M Jacob in 2011 general elections.
M J Jacob had won the seat in 2006 assembly polls, defeating T M Jacob.