Surprise over two candidates stays as Cong. presents remainder of its panel for Kochi Corporation

The suspense over the candidates for 2 divisions of the Kochi Corporation—Cheralayi and Ravipuram—remained unresolved on Friday (November 14, 2025), regardless of the Congress’ assurance that the names could be revealed inside a day.

The candidates have been lacking when Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan offered the get together’s candidates on the District Congress Committee (DCC) workplace on Friday. The Congress has already introduced candidates for 62 of the 76 divisions within the Corporation by way of two separate lists. The first checklist contained 40 names, adopted by one other checklist of twenty-two candidates on Thursday (November 13, 2025).

Announcing the second checklist, DCC president Muhammed Shiyas described the choice to depart out candidates for 2 wards as a “shock,” although the names of BJP dissident and six-time councillor Shyamala S. Prabhu and former Congress Mayor Soumini Jain had been circulating for Cheralayi and Ravipuram divisions respectively.

Presenting the candidates, Mr. Satheesan stated the Kochi Corporation must be the primary native physique the get together wins when the outcomes are declared. “We have the political basis within the Corporation space to win 50 to 55 seats, and that too by an enormous majority. We ought to have the ability to mount an efficient marketing campaign to defeat the LDF’s deceptive narrative,” he added.

Mr. Satheesan alleged that no different authorities had destroyed the State to this extent. He stated the LDF governing committee within the Corporation had been reaping the advantages of the ₹2,000 crore secured beneath the SmartCity undertaking by the UDF committee led by former Mayor Tony Chammany between 2010 and 2015.

Earlier, Mr. Shiyas urged Congress candidates to combat till the “final weapon of their armoury” was exhausted to make sure that the get together wrested again management of the Corporation, which it misplaced between the cup and the lip 5 years in the past.

Meanwhile, the Indian Union Muslim League returned division 41, reserved for Scheduled Tribe girl, to the Congress. The get together will subject Divya Rajesh from the seat.