The biggest impact on the Congress in Kerala in the upcoming election. Congress is crumbling. There the saffron flag flies and the BJP families. Congress leader and daughter of former Chief Minister K. Karunakaran Padmaja Venugopal left the Congress and joined the BJP. It is reported that Padmaja did not meet BJP National President JP Nadda. It is also rumored that he will accept BJP membership in Delhi today. Padmaja also withdrew her FB post denying the news of her joining the BJP.
Indications are that K Muralidharan and K Sudhakaran are also following Padmaja. The fact that K Sudhakaran did not contest raises doubts. Padmaja has told her close friends that the reason behind the decision is that the Congress party leadership has continuously ignored it. The problem started when the district leaders stopped Padmaja from getting into Priyanka Gandhi’s vehicle during the last assembly election campaign rally.
Padmaja contested the Thrissur constituency in the last two assembly elections but did not win. It is also indicated that the Congress is delaying the construction of K. Karunakaran’s memorial and influenced Padmaja’s decision. But even though there were earlier campaigns that Padmaja would join the BJP, she rejected it.
Padmaja said that she had heard a news in some media that she was going to join the BJP and did not know where it came from. Padmaja is currently one of the General Secretaries of KPCC. In 2004, Padmaja contested from Mukundapuram Lok Sabha constituency but lost.Padmaja contested for the assembly from Thrissur in 2021 but was defeated even then. V. S. Sunil Kumar was the opposing candidate that time.
Padmaja Venugopal is the first woman to hold the charge of Thrissur DCC President. He was a member of the Indian National Trade Union Congress Working Committee, Thappaya Employees Union and Technical Educational Society of India. Former Chief Minister K. She is the daughter of Karunakaran and Kalyanikutty Amma.
K. Muraleedharan MP, who is also her brother, said that Padmaja had not given him any hint about leaving the party and yesterday morning when he got hints about this, he tried to call her on the phone but was unable to get through. Muralidharan responded that Padmaja has blocked him on the phone since yesterday and that Congress will not be tired if she leaves.
