thrissur the ldf leadership in thrissur is elated as the district has been allocated three ministers this time also as was the case with the outgoing pinarayi ministry the ldf has won 12 out of the 13 seats in the district in this election interestingly all the three proposed ministers from the district are associated with the sree kerala varma college two of them cpis k rajan and cpms k radhakrishnan were students while r bindu was the acting principal of the college the district had three representatives v s sunilkumar cpi c raveendranath cpm and a c moideen cpmhailing the decision of the ldf to allocate the posts of three ministers to thrissur the cpm district secretary m m varghese said this was a recognition for the growing mass support of the ldf in the district in the last elections also the ldf could win in 12 seats in the district but this time the vote share of the ldf has gone up by nearly 2 from 45 in 2016 to about 47 in 2021 also the margins of the winning candidates have also gone up he saidanother remarkable facet of the ldf win in thrissur was that the vote share of the bjp has shrunk from 19 in 2016 to about 17 in 2021 it is a welcome sign that communal politics is not able to take roots in the district a major reason for the victory this time was that the ldf could win the support of all the communities and sections the ldf state leadership has recognised this rise in mass support here varghese saideven though thrissur was earlier a congress stronghold it is now emerging as an ldf citadel apart from the statelevel positive factors for the ldf the care taken by the elected representatives to address the needs in the constituencies has greatly contributed to the sustained victory of the ldf in the district and the present decision of the ldf is in appreciation of these changes cpi district secretary k k valsaraj said even though the udf has marginally improved its vote share by about 033 in thrissur this time the front is facing a rudderless predicament in the district