The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to make a forceful entry into the Lok Sabha election fray in Kerala by announcing its candidates for 12 parliamentary seats in the State on Saturday.
The panel of candidates cleared by the party’s national leadership emerged as a fusion of high-profile leaders, relatively new faces, and experimental nominees.
The candidates included Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar (Thiruvananthapuram), Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan (Attingal), actor Suresh Gopi (Thrissur), M.T. Ramesh (Kozhikode), Shobha Surendran (Alappuzha), Anil K. Antony (Pathanamthitta), C. Krishnakumar (Palakkad), Abdul Salam (Malappuram), Niveditha Subramanian (Ponnani), Prafulla Krishna (Vadakara), M.L. Ashwini (Kasaragod), and C. Raghunath (Kannur).
