Kottikalasam

According to an article entitled ‘Kottikalasam’ marks end of campaigning for Corporation and local body elections, in The Hindu, on Monday, December 8:

The hectic campaigning for the local body elections in the Thiruvananthapuram district concluded on Sunday evening with candidates, leaders and workers of the three major political fronts coming together at various parts of the city and rural centres for a ‘Kottikalasam’, the loud, celebratory culmination of the campaigning.

The district will go to the polls on December 9, along with five other districts in southern and central Kerala. On Monday, the party workers and candidates will be involved in a round of silent campaigning, to make one last earnest pitch to the voters. With the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation witnessing a three­cornered fight between the Left Democratic Front, the United Democratic Front and the National Democratic Alliance, the stakes are high.

I took some photographs of the kottikalasam that passed our house from the balcony.

These show a truck with a local politician delivering live oratory, some of the sixty or more scooters and bikes, and the final truck with the extra-loud music.

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