kozhikode in his early 20s p madhusudanan an ardent supporter of cpm used to cut laterite stone for a living his love for the party symbol was so much so that he used to carve it onto the red stone as a hobby then thirty years on madhus love for the party and its symbol has only increased with time proof of which is his paddy farm which he has designed in the shape of the hammer and sickle as part of his campaign for the partymadhuvettan as he is fondly called in panalad has grown the crop in about 900sq ft area candidate from mattannur k k shailaja had visited madhu recently to convey her gratitudemadhu who started off as a stonecutter about three decades ago switched to tailoring as a profession at a time when printing the party symbol onto flags was a difficult task he said he was always busy sewing the party flag during elections back then we used to cut the cloth in the shape of the sickle and hammer and then sew it on to the flag says madhu we are lucky this time to have a candidate like shailaja teacher our only aim is to increase the majority and hopefully my work would be of help he said