Thougha number of exit polls have predicted victories for Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan in Kerala, but one has showed his son-in-law and national DYFI (youthwing of the CPI-M) president P.A. Mohammed Riyaz losing the Beypore Assemblyconstituency.
TheManorama News TV had predicted that Vijayan's son-in-law Riyaz will loose theBeypore Assembly constituency against the Congress candidate by a margin of 3.6per cent votes.
Incidentally,Riyaz as a candidate came as a surprise, as many believed that as his marriagewas solemnised only a few months back with Vijayan's daughter Veena, so hemight have to wait a little more to enter into the full time politics of thestate.
However,his debut was during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections which he lost by a whisker ofa margin of just 838 votes to the Congress candidate from the Kozhikode LokSabha seat
Incidentallythe Beypore constituency in Kozhikode district has always been a CPI-Mstronghold and since 1967, the Congress led UDF has just won once and hence theprediction of the Manorama News has indeed come as a shocker.
But,other Malayalam TV channels have all predicted a victory for Riyaz.
Inthe 2016 polls, businessman turned politician VKC Mammed Koya of the CPI-M wonwith a margin of 14,363 votes, while in the 2011 polls top CPI-M leaderElamaram Kareem won with a margin of 5,316 votes.
Sofor Riyaz the coming hours is going to be a nail biting one and it would be nodifferent for Vijayan either.