29 Muslim MLAs to enter Kerala Assembly 2016 , mostly from IUML

Kozhikode : Keeping alive Kerala’s tradition of ousting the government in every election, the Congress-led UDF suffered a stunning rout, which its leader and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said he had never expected. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) won 91 of the 140 seats, with the CPI-M itself grabbing 58. In contrast, the entire UDF tally was 47. An independent was also on the winning track. There will be 29 Muslim MLAs in the newly elected 140-member Kerala Assembly . In previous Assembly there were  36 Muslims. Most of the Muslim MLAs elected to the Kerala house are from Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The party  had fielded 24 candidates in the 2016 elections – 18 of them have got elected. 16 of them are Muslims, the remaining 02 are non-Muslims. Other Muslim MLAs elected to the Kerala assembly are 02 of Congress, 07 are from the CPI-M, 03 Independents and 01 Muslim candidate won the election on National Secular Conference ticket.  with IANS inputs. Courtesy: muslimmirror.com