The Congress-led United Democratic Front’s (UDF) tactical tie-up with the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind-backed Welfare Party of India (WPI) in select divisions in Mukkom municipality in Kozhikode district had hit the headlines in 2020. While the arrangement benefited the coalition in the civic body and in a couple of grama panchayats in the vicinity, the Congress and its allies faced an electoral backlash elsewhere in the State a
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