Thiruvananthapuram, March 20 -- Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan filed his nomination papers as the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate in Dharmadam Assembly constituency in Kannur district on Thursday.

Chief minister Vijayan, the first candidate of a major party to file nomination for the upcoming assembly polls, submitted the papers before Returning Officer Sachin Krishna at the Sub-Registrar Office in Thalassery around 11 am.

The chief minister was accompanied by his Communist Party of India (Marxist) colleagues EP Jayarajan, AN Shamseer, KK Rajesh and P Sasi. Incidentally, Vijayan submitted the nomination papers on the 28th death anniversary of EMS Namboodiripad, Kerala's first chief minister and communist doyen.

Though the...