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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its archetypal database of candidates for the section assemblage elections for Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, with respective high-profile candidates among them. Among the 67 candidates announced by BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar connected Sunday are erstwhile Director General of Police (DGP) R. Sreelekha and jock Padmini Thomas.
A bully fig of sitting councillors including V.V. Rajesh, M.R. Gopan, P. Ashokkumar, Ashanath G.S., Karamana Ajith, V.G. Girikumar, Papanamcode Saji and Simi Jyothish volition beryllium contesting again, though astir of them are switching seats arsenic wards are reserved for women successful alternate terms. K. Maheswaran Nair and Thampanoor Satheesh who had shifted from the Congress successful caller years person besides been accommodated successful the archetypal list. The campaigner database has respective caller faces too.
The BJP’s campaigner declarations did not spell down good with its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) state Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS). Immediately aft the announcement, the BDJS territory enactment made its displeasure wide and expressed its resoluteness to contention alone. The BDJS, which had contested successful 1 ward successful 2020, had demanded eleven seats this time. However, 3 of the wards announced connected Sunday - Edavacode, Ulloor and Mannanthala - were among the eleven that the enactment demanded.
Mr. Chandrasekhar said that the 35 councillors of the BJP who had won successful 2020 had worked sincerely implicit the past 5 years by exposing the corruption-ridden medication of the Left Democratic Front (LDF). “This time, we volition petition the radical to springiness america an accidental to crook this metropolis into ‘Vikasita Ananthapuri’,” said Mr. Chandrasekhar.
Past failures
The BJP, which accrued its tally from 6 seats successful 2010 to 35 successful 2015, had hoped to seizure powerfulness successful the Corporation successful 2020. However, its tally remained static arsenic the LDF improved its seats from 43 to 51 wards. In the 5 byelections implicit this term, the BJP has besides failed to triumph immoderate and besides mislaid 1 seat. The enactment is besides beset with interior friction aft erstwhile enactment spokesperson M.S. Kumar held the enactment enactment liable for the decease of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation councillor K. Anilkumar, who allegedly committed termination successful September this twelvemonth pursuing a fiscal situation astatine a cooperative nine that helium had headed.
