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Church recommends candidate to Sonia Gandhi for Ernakulam seat

The powerful Latin Catholic Church in Kerala has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi urging the party to consider Hybi Eden, chief of the Congress' student wing, as party candidate for the Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat.

The letter was written by the Varapuzha Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil, who is also  President of the Kerala Regional Latin Catholic Council, the body that looks after the social and other activities of the church.

The church has given three other names.

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