Senior Congress leader and Chalakudy candidate Benny Behanan suffers heart attack

“He underwent angioplasty. He has been kept under 48-hour observation,” his aide said.

Behanan, who is also convener of the Congress-led UDF in Kerala, had filed his nomination papers as party candidate from Chalakkudy constituency on Monday.

LDF’s sitting MP, Malayalam film actor Innocent, and BJP’s A N Radhakrishnan are his main rivals in the April 23 Parliamentary polls.

Ernakulam district Congress Committee president T J Vinod said the UDF leadership would make necessary arrangements to conduct the poll campaign in his absence.