‘People have realised BJP is playing vendetta politics’The 2021 elections saw several Congress candidates initiate crowdfunding. Aritha Babu, the Youth Congress state vice-president who contested unsuccessfully from Kayamkulam, said her poll management team collected close to Rs 2 lakh towards the fag end of her campaigning.“It was CWC leader Ramesh Chennithala who suggested I go for crowdfunding after we faced severe dearth of funds. We managed to provide posters to all booth committees with the money raised then,” Aritha told TNIE.B R M Shafeer, who lost from Varkala in 2021, said, “The trend favours Congress this time, as people have realised BJP is playing vendetta politics.” Congress leaders told TNIE that people have already started showing sympathy to their candidates making fund mobilisation easier.
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