Sons of politicians are battling it out in the electoral arena in Kerala hoping that luck and lineage will pull them through.
For K Muraleedharan, son of veteran leader K Karunakaran, who is contesting from Koduvally, electoral battles are not new, but this is the first time he is testing the pulse of voters after his party, the Democratic Indira Congress-K was carved out of the Congress.
DIC-K, which sewed up an electoral understanding with the Congress-led United Democratic Front a few days before the polls, is hoping that the tie-up would ensure Muraleedharan's smooth sail into the Assembly.
He has been pitted against P T A Rahim, a Left Democratic Front-supported independent.
Muraleedharan has represented Kozhikode in Parliament twice. But his attempt to step into the Assembly had been thwarted once earlier when he contested from Vadakancherry in the 2004 bypoll.
M K Muneer, son of former chief minister C H Mohammed Koya, is contesting from Mankada.
Muneer, PWD minister in the Oommen Chandy Cabinet, had represented Malappuram in the Assembly in 1996 and 2001, but was shifted to Mankada this time and faces Manjalam Kuzhiali (LDF-ind).
Film and television actor K B Ganesh Kumar, son of Kerala Congress (B) leader R Balakrishna Pillai is trying his luck once again from Pathanapuram which he represented in the last election.
Ganesh, who was also a state minister for a brief period, is contesting against K R Chandramohan of the Communist Party of India.
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