THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a surprise revelation,

, the Congress candidate in Thrissur, said that he might lose the election since the majority community has not voted for him. Prathapan said this in the KPCC meeting convened on Tuesday to review the Congress party's performance in the Lok Sabha election.

He said the presence of Suresh Gopi as the NDA candidate had dampened his prospects since there was consolidation of majority community votes in the constituency which worked in favour of the BJP.

However,

disputed this claim and made it clear that Thrissur is one among the top four seats of the party where victory is almost certain.

Meanwhile, the meeting decided not to act on personal complaints of the candidates until the results are out.

V K Sreekandan, the Congress candidate in

, and M K Raghavan, the party candidate in Kozhikode, who had earlier communicated their complaints to the leadership, preferred to keep silent in the meeting following instructions from the KPCC

. Lack of support from district Congress committees had crippled the campaigns of both and they had raised the issue with the senior leaders then.

The top leadership of the KPCC made it clear in the meeting that it was not proper to discuss the complaints now and hence asked all leaders not to utilise the meeting to unleash personal attacks. KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran urged the leaders to discuss the complaints once the results are out.

After the meeting, Ramachandran said all the 16 candidates of the party were confident of winning the election. "I am extremely confident that the UDF will win all the 20 seats and all our party candidates have expressed the same feeling," said the KPCC president.