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Defections from the Congress enactment to the BJP continued connected Friday, with 2 Youth Congress leaders joining the BJP.
BJP State president, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, welcomed B.S. Anoop, erstwhile Thiruvananthapuram territory president of Dalit Congress, into the party. Anoop had contested the 2021 Assembly elections from the Chirayinkeezhu constituency connected a UDF summons and is apt to beryllium fielded by the BJP from the aforesaid spot successful the upcoming election.
Another Youth Congress leader, R.S. Arunraj, a erstwhile enforcement committee subordinate of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee, besides joined the BJP connected Friday.
At a property league addressed by Mr. Chandrasekhar present connected Friday, some Mr. Anoop and Mr. Arunraj expressed their choler and anguish astatine being “disregarded” by the Congress enactment contempt the agelong years they had enactment successful arsenic faithful enactment workers. Mr. Anoop said that contempt his links with radical of Chirayinkeezhu, helium was ne'er made portion of immoderate discussions to determine the campaigner there.
Mr. Anoop peculiarly expressed his discontent implicit the Congress’s determination to tract Ramya Haridas from Chirayinkeezhu and alleged that the enactment nary longer stood for the downtrodden and susceptible sections of society.
The 2 leaders further criticised the Congress for “laying retired the reddish carpet” for CPI(M) leaders from Kannur, including T.K. Govindan and V. Kunhikrishnan, whom they accused of being portion of the convulsive governmental civilization associated with the CPI(M) successful Kannur.
Mr. Chandrasekhar pointed retired that successful the past 1 period unsocial respective elder members of some Congress and the CPI(M) had joined BJP and that the CPI(M) had been showing overmuch intolerance towards them. Three erstwhile MLAs of the Left parties -- C.C Mukundan (Nattika), K. Ajith (Vaikom) and S. Rajendran (Devikulam) were present contesting the 2026 elections connected BJP tickets successful the aforesaid constituencies, Mr. Chandrasekhar added.
He said that radical were becoming progressively fed up with some governmental fronts successful Kerala and that NDA’s results successful the upcoming elections would beryllium thing abbreviated of phenomenal. Mr. Chandrasekhar claimed that the NDA would propulsion disconnected an unexpected triumph successful 1 of the Assembly seats and added cryptically that everything would go wide connected May 4.
