Counting of votes for the Kerala local body elections started on Saturday morning. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA secured 50 of 101 seats in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram’s municipal corporation, ending decades of rule by the Left Democratic Front.

This is in addition to the actions under Stages I, II and III of extant GRAP already in-force in NCR.

A three-member panel headed by PM Modi had recommended Raj Kumar Goyal’s name.