Malappuram: VP Sanu will contest as LDF candidate for the upcoming bypolls in Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency.  The former SFI national president was the LDF candidate for the same constituency in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Sanu lost the 2019 polls to UDF candidate PK Kunhalikutty by 2,60,153 votes in Malappuram.

The election commission has announced bypolls in Malappuram constituency after PK Kunhalikutty resigned from the Lok Sabha seat to contest the Kerala assembly election.

Meanwhile, BJP will field AP Abdullakutty in the bypolls. 

Muslim League is considering leaders including former Rajya Sabha member M. P. Abdussamad Samadani as a candidate for this seat.