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BJP Releases Second Record for Kerala Polls

2 min learnMar 19, 2026 02:46 PM IST

Former Mizoram governor Kummanam Rajasekharan will contest from the Aranmula Meeting seat within the upcoming Kerala Meeting elections.

He figures within the second record of 39 candidates launched Thursday.

Earlier, the BJP had launched a listing of 47 candidateslargely specializing in seats the place the celebration sees a combating probability. Distinguished within the second record is B Gopalakrishnan, who has been given the temple city of Guruvayur.

Sitting MLA C C Mukundan, who stop the CPI after being denied a ticket, would be the BJP candidate in Nattika. M J Job, who left the Congress in protest towards his celebration’s determination to again CPI(M) insurgent G Sudhakaran in Ambalapuzha, shall be fielded in Alappuzha because the BJP candidate.

Valsala Prasanna Kumar, who just lately stop the Congress in Ernakulam, is the BJP candidate in Paravur, the seat of Opposition Chief VD Satheesan.

After the primary record was launched, there was resentment throughout the BJP as a number of senior leaders, together with Rajasekharan, didn’t determine in it regardless of the inclusion of seats the place the celebration is mobilising its election equipment. Rajasekharan, who was state president throughout the 2016 Meeting elections, had misplaced from Nemom in 2021, then the BJP’s solely sitting seat.

Rajasekharan has been lively in Aranmula protesting a greenfield airport mission, alleging it will destroy the area’s heritage and ecosystem. He’ll tackle two-term legislator and Well being Minister Veena George.

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On the similar time, resentment is brewing amongst a piece of BJP employees in Ernakulam over the celebration’s failure to discipline its personal candidate in Thrippunithura, the place it has a robust presence. The BJP captured the Tripunithura municipality within the current native physique elections and secured over 15 per cent of the vote in 2021.

Nevertheless, the seat has been given to Twenty20, floated by the KITEX group, which has fielded actor Anjali Nair. The BJP has additionally allotted Kodungallur, a temple city, to Twenty20 regardless of having secured 18 per cent of the vote there final time.

Shaju Philip

Shaju Philip is a Senior Assistant Editor at The Indian Specific, the place he leads the publication’s protection from Kerala. With over 25 years of expertise in mainstream journalism, he is likely one of the most authoritative voices on the socio-political, spiritual, and developmental panorama of South India.

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