KOTTAYAM: It is almost sure that Jaick C Thomas will be fielded as the LDF candidate for the Puthupally bypolls. The official announcement regarding it will be made tomorrow. An agreement has been reached in this regard at the CPM district committee meet convened. Jaick Thomas is also CPM district committee member.

In the possibility list prepared by the district committee, priority was for Jaick from the beginning. Reji Zacharia and K M Radhakrishnan are the other two. A decision will be taken for Jaick as the candidate in the CPM state secretariat to be convened here today. The candidate will be announced jointly by the Puthupally mandalam committee and the district committee tomorrow.

The election notification was released the other day. The nomination papers can be filed from today till August 17 for the polls to be held on September 5. Scrutiny of the nomination papers will be held on August 18. The last date for withdrawing the nominations is August 21.