KPCC chief’s brother joins BJP in Kannur

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Shaji V. Joseph, member of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) astatine a relation held astatine Puthiyatheru successful Kannur connected Thursday. He was formally inducted into the enactment by Sadanand Shet Tanavade, erstwhile Goa BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP.

Addressing the gathering, Mr. Joseph said helium was drawn to the ‘development-oriented politics’ of Narendra Modi and hence decided to permission the Congress and articulation the BJP. He began his nationalist beingness with the Kerala Students Union (KSU) successful 1975 astatine the Ulikkal panchayat precocious schoolhouse and aboriginal served arsenic the Ulikkal mandalam president of the Youth Congress and the Congress. He remained an progressive enactment idiosyncratic for years.

He alleged that the Congress’s “anti-development stance and appeasement politics” had go intolerable. He maintained that helium had not sought immoderate presumption and that his determination was based connected ideological conviction.

Mr. Joseph besides clarified that determination was nary quality of sentiment with Mr. Sunny Joseph, adding that a alteration successful governmental stance was a substance of idiosyncratic freedom.

Published - March 19, 2026 08:52 p.m. IST

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