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Following a astonishing electoral upset successful Pathanapuram, outgoing Transport Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar has launched a scathing onslaught connected the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In a elaborate Facebook post, the LDF candidate, who mislaid his long-held spot to Congress’ Jyothikumar Chamakkala, alleged that a clandestine woody betwixt the 2 absorption parties paved the mode for his defeat. Ganesh Kumar pointed to a important and ‘suspicious’ driblet successful the BJP’s ballot stock arsenic superior grounds of cross-voting intended to consolidate the anti-LDF front.
The actor-turned-politician backed his claims with a comparative investigation of erstwhile predetermination cycles. He noted that BJP campaigner Bheeman Raghu secured 11,700 votes successful 2016, a fig that roseate to 12,398 successful 2021. Furthermore, successful the 2025 section assemblage elections, the BJP-led beforehand reportedly garnered astir 23,000 votes crossed the constituency. However, successful the existent Assembly election, contempt the BJP winning 3 different seats crossed the State, their tally successful Pathanapuram plummeted to conscionable 7,031 votes. Mr. Ganesh argued that the determination to tract a campaigner from the Twenty20 enactment nether the Jackfruit awesome was a tactical determination to disguise the diversion of NDA votes to the UDF.
He further alleged that the NDA was virtually invisible during the run period. Mr. Ganesh besides observed that successful 3 constituencies wherever the BJP emerged victorious, the LDF finished successful a adjacent 2nd portion the Congress fell to a distant third. According to him, the Congress failed to adjacent clasp its accepted ballot slope successful those areas, suggesting a strategical withdrawal to guarantee LDF defeats.
