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BJP person and NDA campaigner from Thrissur Assembly constituency, Padmaja Venugopal, connected Monday expressed “utmost happiness and pride” aft sharing an unfastened conveyance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a roadshow here, calling it a “sweet revenge” against her erstwhile party, the Congress.
A erstwhile Congress person and girl of four-time Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran, Padmaja, alleged that she was denied a akin accidental arsenic a campaigner during the 2021 Assembly canvass run erstwhile Congress person Priyanka Gandhi visited Thrissur. Padmaja had contested arsenic a UDF campaigner from the Thrissur constituency successful the 2021 assembly polls. “Despite repeated requests, I was not allowed to stock the unfastened conveyance with Priyanka Gandhi. Even though I was a candidate, the past Lok Sabha MP was fixed preference. I faced neglect connected signifier arsenic well,” she told reporters. “In that context, sharing the conveyance with the PM was a saccharine revenge for me,” she added.
Recalling the roadshow held connected Sunday, she said Mr. Modi treated her with warmth and courtesy. “He behaved similar an elder member and adjacent asked maine to determination to the beforehand portion we were lasting successful the vehicle. It was the happiest time of my life,” she said.
During the high-energy run lawsuit connected Sunday, 3 NDA candidates, including Padmaja, joined Modi successful the unfastened conveyance arsenic it moved done Thrissur, drafting ample crowds. Thrissur is 1 of the constituencies wherever the BJP is pinning its hopes up of the April 9 Assembly polls.
