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Reji Lucose, known to beryllium a Left sympathiser and often seen connected quality channels engaged successful fierce defence of the Left, has joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Mr. Lucose was formally inducted into the enactment astatine a relation held astatine Mararji Bhavan present connected Thursday (January 8, 2026), with the BJP State president, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, presenting him with the enactment membership.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Lucose said that old, outdated and tally down ideologies were pushing the State to a superior crisis.
“There is nary ideological crushed for a governmental conflict successful Kerala astatine present. Youth are leaving the State successful droves and if this inclination continues, Kerala volition soon beryllium the location of the aged,” helium said.
Mr. Lukose, who has been a staunch defender of Left policies till now, said that helium has large hopes for the improvement imaginativeness enactment distant by the BJP. His dependable volition present talk lone for BJP, helium added.
He said that it was the improvement docket of BJP’s nationalist enactment that attracted him to the party. He said helium was profoundly disappointed and saddened by the CPI (M)’s policies which were promoting a divisive communal docket successful Kerala.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Chandrasekhar said the results of caller section assemblage elections were impervious that the radical of Kerala were batting for the improvement docket for the State that BJP had acceptable forth.
He said the aforesaid imaginativeness would beryllium taken guardant successful the Assembly elections arsenic well. Mr. Chandrasekhar besides announced that Union Home Minister Amit Shah would sojourn Kerala to inaugurate the party’s predetermination run activities.
