Eye on local, assembly polls & ‘new Kerala’ aspiration, BJP names Rajeev Chandrasekhar new state chief
Thiruvananthapuram: With two crucial elections around the corner—the 2025 local body polls and 2026 assembly elections—Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s appointment as the new chief of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kerala unit reflects the party’s growing aspirations in the state. Following his 2024 Lok Sabha performance, Chandrasekhar is set to replace K. Surendran, the party head in Kerala since 2020.
BJP’s Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha candidate in 2024, Chandrasekhar campaigned mostly on the promise of ‘transforming the constituency’ through IT and infrastructure development, raising the party’s vote share in the constituency from 31.30 percent in 2019 to 35.52 percent. Though he lost to United Democratic Front’s Shashi Tharoor by 16,077 votes, he pushed the Left Democratic Front’s Pannyan Raveendran t...