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Arjuna Award victor and 1982 Asian Games 400 m bronze medallist Padmini Thomas, who is contesting to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation connected the BJP summons from the Palayam ward, revealed to reporters connected the run way connected Tuesday that she has temporarily ceased her regular jogging astatine University Stadium.
Ms. Thomas said she expects to resume her greeting regular aft the polling connected 9 December. “University Stadium is cardinal to my life. I americium an ubiquitous beingness astatine the ground. For maine to instrumentality a interruption from regular moving is simply a idiosyncratic sacrifice for my party,” she added.
Mr. Thomas claimed that she had capable moving to do. The Palayam ward has an estimated 6.000 voters. “That is simply a batch of crushed to cover,” she said.
Ms. Thomas claimed she had a home-turf advantage, fixed that she has been a nonmigratory of Palayam for decades and knew her ward similar the wrong of her palm.
Ms. Thomas, who served arsenic president of the Kerala Sports Council during the erstwhile Congress government, defected to the BJP successful aboriginal 2025. She, on with different Congress defector, Thampanoor Satheesh, erstwhile District Congress Committee wide secretary, joined the BJP. Both are contesting connected the BJP summons successful the high-stakes conflict for the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
