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Lok Sabha elections 2024: It will be battleground Thiruvananthapuram!
Updated On: 26 April, 2024 07:33 AM IST | Thiruvananthapuram | Vinod Kumar Menon
Political observer M G Radhakrishnan says BJP still has a long way to go, as it has not established credibility as an alternative to the LDF or the UDF in Kerala
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor during a campaign in Thiruvananthapuram Kerala. Pic/Atul Kamble
With all 20 seats of Kerala going to polls today, mid-day met M G Radhakrishnan, a well-known political observer in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. In a free-wheeling chat, Radhakrishnan discusses the prospects of the mainstream political parties and the challenges they face, in the Lok Sabha polls. Excerpts from the conversation:
Congress’s Shashi Tharoor is facing the most challenging election this time. The Thiruvananthapuram constituency will see one of the fierce contests in this election. Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has already achieved a hat trick here. Now he is contesting against BJP candidate and entrepreneur Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a three-time Rajya Sabha MP and former minister for industries. This seems to be a vital wicket for Tharoor.
Tharoor contested the first Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram in 2009, winning by a margin of nearly 1 lakh votes. In 2014, he was up against O Rajagopal, the veteran BJP leader, and though he won, Tharoor’s winning margin came down to 15,470 votes. In the 2019 general election, he secured 99,989 votes over his nearest rival.
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