Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Upcoming Assembly elections will be the most crucial for the State, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

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BJP State president   Rajeev Chandrasekhar

BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN

Bharatiya Janata Party (BP) Kerala State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has a wide governmental strategy for astatine slightest six oregon 7 constituencies successful the upcoming Assembly elections successful the State.

Speaking to media persons successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Thursday (March 19, 2026), helium said that the campaigner for the Thiruvananthapuram Central constituency would beryllium announced soon.

He added that dissimilar earlier, the BJP contiguous had respective competent candidates with fantabulous enactment qualities successful each constituency and that transparent and elaborate discussions had taken spot earlier deciding candidates for each constituency.

The upcoming Assembly elections 2026 would beryllium the astir important predetermination successful the past of Kerala, for this was the archetypal clip that beyond mendacious promises and the authorities of opportunism indulged successful by the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF), the radical were being fixed a wide position of the aboriginal improvement of the State, helium said.

Mr. Chandrasekhar said that neither the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] nor the Congress had thing to accidental astir what they had done truthful acold oregon what they would bash present to alteration the lives of mean people.

Development perspective

The radical were intelligibly seeing for themselves the improvement position that the BJP-NDA had enactment distant for Kerala and however it could alteration the aboriginal of the State and the prospects of its adjacent generations, helium claimed. This would beryllium the main plank connected which the enactment would combat this Assembly elections, helium added.

He said that the BJP was promising a corruption-free medication and reclamation of investments and employment opportunities for the State. “We are not giving immoderate mendacious guarantees for radical connected the eve of the elections. We are talking astir the authorities of performance, arsenic evidenced by the improvement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured for the radical successful the past 11 years. Vikasita Keralam is not conscionable a slogan, it is simply a promise,” Mr. Chandrasekhar said.

He said that it was a certainty that the CPI(M)'s propulsion for a 3rd mandate from the radical of Kerala would beryllium dashed. In this Assembly elections, the radical had lone 2 options, the UDF and the NDA, helium claimed.

Replying to a question connected however galore constituencies would spot a three-way fight, Mr. Chandrasekhar said that successful each Assembly constituencies successful the State, it would beryllium a three-way fight, if not for the undercurrents oregon the soundless confederation betwixt the CPI(M) and the Congress successful constituencies wherever BJP had beardown winning chances. He said that helium had experienced it during the past Lok Sabha elections. He said that the Congress and the CPI(M) mightiness deliberation that the radical did not comprehend these underhand deals but the radical of Kerala would not beryllium fooled successful this election.

Published - March 19, 2026 06:05 p.m. IST

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