Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 30 (IANS): Though a number of exit polls have predicted victories for Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala, but one has shown his son-in-law and national DYFI (youth wing of the CPI-M) president P.A. Mohammed Riyaz losing the Beypore Assembly constituency.

The Manorama News TV had predicted that Vijayan's son-in-law Riyaz will lose the Beypore Assembly constituency against the Congress candidate by a margin of 3.6 percent votes.

Incidentally, Riyaz as a candidate came as a surprise, as many believed that as his marriage was solemnised only a few months back with Vijayan's daughter Veena, so he might have to wait a little more to enter into the full-time politics of the state.

However, his debut was during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections which he lost by a whisker of a margin of just 838 votes to the Congress candidate from the Kozhikode Lok Sabha seat

Incidentally, the Beypore constituency in the Kozhikode district has always been a CPI-M stronghold and since 1967, the Congress-led UDF has just won once and hence the prediction of the Manorama News has indeed come as a shocker.

But, other Malayalam TV channels have all predicted a victory for Riyaz.

In the 2016 polls, a businessman turned politician VKC Mammed Koya of the CPI-M won with a margin of 14,363 votes, while in the 2011 polls top CPI-M leader Elamaram Kareem won with a margin of 5,316 votes.

So for Riyaz, the coming hours is going to be a nail-biting one and it would be no different for Vijayan either.