Thiruvananthapuram, May 4 -- Senior Congress leaders, including KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala, Sunny Joseph and Shashi Tharoor, gathered at the party's Kerala headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram to celebrate after the United Democratic Front crossed the halfway mark in trends released by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The leaders marked the moment by cutting a cake and jointly raising their hands in a gesture of victory, celebrating the UDF's strong performance in the early trends.

Speaking on early trends in Keralam, the CPI (M) General Secretary, MA Baby, expressed optimism about the reversal of trends as the counting will progress further later in the day. He stated that under the LDF regime, poverty has been eradicated fr...