Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate VK Prasanth is set to contest the 2026 Kerala Assembly elections from the Vattiyoorkavu constituency, where he aims to retain the seat in a tight three-way contest.
The BJP has fielded IPS officer R Sreelekha, while the Congress has nominated senior leader K Muraleedharan, son of former chief minister K Karunakaran.
Prasanth, a lawyer by profession, has been active in politics since his college days and has served as a panchayat member from 2005 to 2010.
In the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, Prasanth won the Vattiyoorkavu seat with 61,111 votes, defeating BJP’s VV Rajesh by a margin of 21,515 votes.
