The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday announced the list of candidates for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections and said that the party will contest from 115 seats out of the 140 seats. BJP's national general secretary Arun Singh,while announcing the list of candidates said the rest of the 25 seats will be left for its allies. Arun Singh also announced that the state BJP chief K Surendran will be contesting the elections from two constituencies. Surendran will contest the polls from Kasaragod’s Manjeshwar and Pathanamthitta’s Konni. ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan who recently joined the BJP is contesting from the Palakkad assembly constituency. Singh said, “ E Sreedharan will contest the polls from Palakkad Assembly constituency. Former state BJP chief Kummanam Rajasekharan will be contesting from Nemom seat in the upcoming elections.”
BJP has also named former union minister KJ Alphons who will be contesting from the Kanjirrapally assembly constituency. Former Kerala DGP Jacob Thomas will contest from Irinjalakuda and actor Suresh Gopi will be contesting Trichur assembly constituency. The BJP’s list of candidates contains 12 women candidates. Kerala will go to the polls on April 6 and will see a three-way contest fought between the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by Communist Party of India(Marxist)(CPI(M)), the United Democratic Front led by Congress and the BJP.
List of 112 BJP candidates for ensuing general election to the legislative assembly of Kerala finalised by BJP CEC. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/eIeSz4Gb5W
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