Padmaja Venugopal, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) general secretary and late Kerala Chief Minister K. Karunakaran’s daughter, has signalled that she will soon join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Ms. Venugopal’s radical and unexpected change in political allegiance has caught the Congress party by surprise and accorded potent ammunition to the ruling Left Democratic Front and the BJP to pound the United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition on the Lok Sabha elections campaign trial.
It also did not help the Congress that Ms. Venugopal was a member of the party’s apex Political Affairs Committee (PAC).
