The Congress on Friday introduced the primary listing of 39 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The Congress Election Committee on Thursday cleared the names of all 15 sitting MPs from Kerala. Senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor will contest from Thiruvananthapuram.
Final week, the BJP launched its first listing of 195 candidates from 16 states and two Union Territories (UT) for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Within the first listing, the BJP fielded Union ministers reminiscent of Mansukh Mandaviya, Jitendra Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Gajendra Shekhawat, Bhupender Yadav, G Kishan Reddy, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Arjun Munda.
Sitting MP Shashi Tharoor will contest from Thiruvananthapuram for the fourth consecutive time. The previous Union minister has been successful the Thiruvananthapuram seat since 2009. Earlier than 2009, the seat oscillated between CPM and the Congress. In 2019, Shashi Tharoor received over 4 lakh votes whereas BJP candidate Kummanam Rajasekharan was the second with round 3.16 lakh votes. Then again, this shall be Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s first Lok Sabha election.
The opposite massive chief within the contest is CPI chief Pannyan Raveendran, who had received the elections in 2005.
Each Chandrasekhar, 59, and Tharoor, 67, are fashionable faces for his or her events. Tharoor, a former diplomat, contested for the Congress presidential election in October 2022 towards Mallikarjun Kharge. He confronted one in all his hardest challenges after his spouse Sunanda Pushkar’s demise in 2014. However Tharoor managed to win the seat.
Then again, Chandrasekhar has had a profitable stint because the Minister of State for IT and Talent Growth since July 2021. He has a convincing grip on the company sector. In a private capability, Chandrasekhar has been a know-how entrepreneur engaged within the semiconductor manufacturing sector.
After his identify was declared within the first BJP listing for Lok Sabha, Chandrasekhar mentioned: “I’m very excited and honoured. That is the primary alternative I’ve received to contest within the Lok Sabha. I categorical gratitude to PM Modi, Union House Minister Amit Shah and social gathering president JP Nadda who’ve chosen to subject me as their candidate within the capital of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram… It is a marketing campaign I sit up for and I’ll begin it very shortly…The folks of Thiruvananthapuram are extra highly effective and they’re going to resolve who they need to see victorious. BJP could have a decisive mandate within the coming elections…” .
On Monday this week, Chandrasekhar began his maiden election marketing campaign because the BJP’s candidate in Thiruvananthapuram.
BJP is planning massive for Kerala. At current, the saffron social gathering has no MP from the sourthern state. The BJP has put its guess on 12 names for Kerala — ML Ashwini from Kasaragod, C Raghunath from Kannur, Prafulla Krishna from Vadkara, MT Ramesh from Kozhikode, Abdul Salam from Malappuram Niveditha Subramanian from Ponnai, C Krishnakumar from Palakkad, Suresh Gopi from Thrissur, Shobha Surendran from Alappuzha, Anil Ok Antony from Pathanamthitta, V Muraleedharan from Attingal and Rajiv Chandrasekhar from Thiruvananthapuram.
If Chandrasekhar loses the competition towards Tharoor, it might be tough for him as a Union minister as he’s not a Rajya Sabha member.
