Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Cash-for-votes storm dims Sobha Surendran’s sheen

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaigner successful Palakkad Assembly constituency, Sobha Surendran, saw her cautiously amplified nationalist representation instrumentality a terrible beating successful the last hours starring up to polling, pursuing cash-for-votes allegations that surfaced against her campaign.

For the BJP, a run that began connected a high-voltage note, aggressively reaching retired to voters adjacent earlier rival fronts had finalised their candidates, ended up connected the antiaircraft against superior cash-for-votes allegations raised by the United Democratic Front (UDF). If proven, the charges could extremity Ms. Surendran’s Assembly ambitions.