The Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala was fashioned after the delimitation train in 2008. It has seven meeting constituencies from three districts: Mananthavady, Sulthan Bathery and Kalpetta meeting constituencies in Wayanad district; Eranad, Nilambur and Wandoor in Malappuram district; Thiruvambady seat in Kozhikode district. Mananthavady and Sulthan Bathery are Scheduled Tribe (ST) constituencies whereas Wandoor is a Scheduled Caste (SC) constituency.

Rahul Gandhi, who’s looking for re-election within the Lok Sabha ballot from Wayanad, is anticipated to go to the constituency on April 15-16. He will attend election campaigns at Sulthan Bathery, Mananthavady, and Kalpetta Assembly constituencies. He will even attend a farmers’ assembly at Pulpally and a staff’ assembly right here. Gandhi will attend the UDF rally on the Kozhikode seaside on the day.

He will lead campaigns and roadshows within the Thiruvambady Assembly constituency in Kozhikode and Eranad, Nilambur and Wandoor Assembly constituencies in Malappuram district on April 16.

The Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI), that are a part of the Opposition’s INDIA bloc, shall be contesting towards one another for the important thing Wayanad seat. Sitting MP Rahul Gandhi is being pitted towards CPI-M’s senior chief Annie Raja – spouse of CPI normal secretary D Raja – and in addition the final secretary within the celebration’s National Federation of Indian Women. BJP’s Kerala unit chief, Okay Surendran, can also be within the contest.

Let us have a look at the constituency extra carefully.

Wayanad district — additionally known as Kerala’s hill district — was carved out of Kannur and Kozhikode as a separate district on November 1, 1980. With 40% of forest land and 31% of Kerala’s tribal inhabitants, Wayanad’s inhabitants as per Census 2011 is 8,17,420. The ST communities kind 18% of district inhabitants whereas SC is round 4%.

In phrases of faith, Wayanad district is dominated by the Hindu neighborhood, which types 49% of the whole inhabitants. Muslims and Christian represent 29% and 21%, respectively.

While the Wayanad parliamentary seat, with the inclusion of three meeting constituencies falling within the Malappuram district, is dominated by the minority inhabitants with Muslims being the biggest single inhabitants group.

Malappuram has 70% Muslim neighborhood share in its general inhabitants combine, as per Census 2011 information. Kozhikode district, with one Wayanad meeting constituency, has 56% Hindus and 39% Muslims.

High proportion of Muslim inhabitants share within the 4 meeting constituencies outdoors Wayanad district modifications the character of the parliamentary constituency to be a minority dominated one as per the estimates drawn from the Census 2011 information.

Wayanad has three municipalities, Mananthavady, Sulthan Bathery and Kalpetta. Census 2011 defines Mananthavady and Sulthan Bathery as Wayanad’s sub-districts. Here, the spiritual inhabitants share of the areas inside a district have been taken from the numbers belonging to the actual meeting constituency falling in that space, as famous by the Census 2011.

Mananthavady has 46% Hindus, 29% Muslims and 24% Christians. Religious inhabitants share in Sulthan Bathery is as much as 58% Hindus, 17% Muslims and 25% Christians. Wayanad district’s headquarters are within the Kalpetta municipality which is a part of the Vythiri taluk. As per Census 2011 figures, the Vythiri sub-district has 43% Hindus, adopted by 41% Muslims and 15% Christians.

Thiruvambady meeting constituency of the Kozhikode district falls within the Kozhikode sub-district space. Census 2011 figures reveal this sub-district has 51% Hindus adopted by 43% Muslims and 6% Christians.

Eranad sub-district, the place the Eranad meeting constituency falls in Malappuram, has 72% Muslims and 26% Hindus. Nilambur and Wandoor fall within the Nilambur Taluk or Tehsil as per the official web site of the Malappuram district. As per the Census 2011 figures, the Nilambur sub-district, with Nilambur and Wandoor meeting constituencies, has 58% Muslims adopted by 33% Hindus and eight% Christians.

The common of the inhabitants base of Hindu, Muslim and Christians in all of the seven meeting constituencies of Wayanad makes it a minority dominated Lok Sabha constituency. The Muslim neighborhood has a inhabitants share of 45.5% whereas Christians are estimated to be 12.5%. Together, they kind 58% of Wayanad inhabitants with Hindus constituting 41.5%.