Najeeb Kanthapuram
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Najeeb Kanthapuram MLA | |
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നജീബ് കാന്തപുരം | |
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| Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly for Perinthalmanna | |
| In office 2021–Incumbent | |
| Preceded by | Manjalamkuzhi Ali |
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| Born | 20 April 1975 |
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Najeeb Kanthapuram is an Indian writer, academic, newspaper editor, journalist. [2][3][4] He was elected as a member of Kerala Legislative Assembly from Perinthalmanna on 2 May 2021.[5][6]
Najeeb Kanthapuram was born to Muhammad Master at Kozhikode on 20 April 1975.[1] He was graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Farook College, Kozhikode, and as a Bachelor of Education from University of Calicut in the year 1996.[1] He was a journalist who worked with Chandrika (newspaper) over 20 years.[1] He worked in Chandrika (newspaper) in different roles and resigned while he was working as Chief Sub Editor. He has started his political career as unit president of Muslim Students Federation. Later on he became panchayath office bearer of Muslim youth league, then president of Koduvally constituency Muslim Youth League. Later he worked as district youth league treasurer two times. Then he was elected as district youth league president by election. Then he became the senior vice president of MYL, Kerala State.[citation needed]
Political career
Earlier, Najeeb Kanthapuram had been the senior vice-president of MYL since December 2016.[4][2] Due to the end of term of the last sitting MLA Manjalamkuzhi Ali, Perinthalmanna went to poll as a part of 2021 Kerala general election on 6 April 2021.[7] Najeeb Kanthapuram was the candidate fielded by UDF from Perinthalmanna.[8][9] There were 217,959 registered voters in Perinthalmanna Constituency for the election.[10] Najeeb Kanthapuram won the election by a narrow margin of 38 votes, making it the lowest victory margin in the election .[11][12][5]
Election Performance
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| IUML | Najeeb Kanthapuram | 76,530 | 46.21% |  0.68 | |
| LDF | K. P. M. Musthafa | 76,492 | 46.19% | 0.31 | |
| BJP | Suchitra Mattada | 8,021 | 4.84% |  0.93 | |
| Independent | Adv. Abdul Afsal. P. T | 906 | 0.55% | N/A | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 867 | 0.52% | 0.19 | |
| Independent | Najeeb Kutteeri | 828 | 0.50% | N/A | |
| Independent | Muhammad Musthafa. K. P | 751 | 0.45% | N/A | |
| Independent | Musthafa. P. K | 750 | 0.45% | N/A | |
| Independent | Musthafa S/O Muhammad | 471 | 0.28% | N/A | |
| Margin of victory | 38 | 0.02% | 0.37 | ||
| Turnout | 1,62,875[10] | 74.73%[10] | 2.93 | ||
| IUML hold | Swing | 0.68 |
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