THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Soon after the Congress announced its list of candidates for the assembly elections, Mahila Congress president Lathika Subhash announced her resignation from the post. Lathika Subhash also demonstrated a protest against the party's decision not to field her in the elections by shaving off her head.

The senior leader also shaved her head sitting at the front courtyard of the party office as a mark of protest for denying ticket.

Subahsh, who met reporters at the party headquarters Indira Bhavan here, soon after the party chief Mullappally Ramachandran announced the candidates' list at New Delhi said it was short of women candidates.

It may be for the first time that any leader in any political party in Kerala had taken such a step to register their protest against the party leadership for denying poll ticket.