Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his third electoral campaign foray into Kerala this year by addressing a mammoth public rally marking the conclusion of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran’s Kerala Padayatra at Central Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
There is a palpable rise of anticipation among BJP workers and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners in Kerala that Mr. Modi may announce the names of Lok Sabha candidates in 20 parliamentary segments in the State at the rally.
Moreover, the BJP reckons Thiruvananthapuram to be a top-category constituency where it believes it has a robust fighting chance to emerge victorious at the hustings. There is also much speculation that the BJP might field a high-profile national-level leader from Thiruvananthapuram to best Congress Working Committee member and incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had garnered 31% of the votes polled in the constituency.
