KOCHI: It's miserably wet weather early in the morning and the IMD has forecast rain through the day but Uma Thomas is all fired up. She and her entourage head for the colonies in the constituency and Uma is determined to meet as many voters there in person as possible. The reaction of ordinary people and the good words they often have to say about her late husband and former MLA, P T Thomas, is what drives her.
Uma along with a group of local Congress workers leave her Palarivattom home at around 7.30am for Shanthipuram Colony in Thammanam where she is welcomed by a group of women. One woman, aged around 60, recalls the efforts by P T Thomas to resolve the waterlogging issue of the colony. During the door-to-door visit, Uma also meets transgender activist Clara.
They chat up and Uma extends all support to the transgender community. It's pouring but in an hour Uma manages to meet each family of the colony directly. As per the campaign schedule, she has to visit Labour Colony in Thammanam after Shanthipuram Colony but the schedule gets changed and she leaves for Mount St Thomas, the official residence of Major Archbishop George Alencherry at Kakkanad.
