THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Congress high command not nodding positively to the request on

contesting from Wayanad seat yet, the KPCC leadership has lost its hope. Uncertainty still prevails in the seat as the party has not announced another candidate in Wayanad.

It was the leaders in the state who came out first claiming that Rahul will be contesting from Wayanad.

was the one who first declared this while speaking to the media. He also claimed that he had received the message in this regard from the senior party leader A K Antony.

Soon, opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala and KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran also claimed that they have requested the AICC president to consider contesting from Wayanad. They said they had received a positive response from the high command and only an official announcement is pending.

T Siddique, who was considered for the seat, too had come out claiming that he is withdrawing from contesting as Chandy has passed on the message that Rahul will be contesting here.

Now, the district Congress committee (DCC) in Wayanad is upset that the UDF is losing its edge in its safest seat in the state to the uncertainty over Rahul candidature. The UDF campaign in Wayanad is yet to gain momentum due to the stalemate.

The speculations over Rahul’s candidature started dying down when senior party leader P C Chacko said that neither Rahul nor the party high command had taken any decision on contesting Wayanad.

Later, Chandy himself had to backtrack from the claim he had made earlier. On Thursday, he said he had never said that Rahul will contest from Wayanad but he had said that ‘it would be better if Rahul decides to contest from any seat in Kerala’.