The Secretary of the Wayanad District Congress Committee (DCC) committed suicide inside the Committee office on Sunday following his failure in the civic polls, the results of which were out on Saturday.

P V John (69), who committed suicide by hanging himself in his office, had got only 39 votes from the Puthenpura ward that he had contested from. This reportedly depressed him and led him to take his own life. 

An LDF rebel won in the ward with 346 votes and John was in the fourth position.