The saffron party has breached the red fort in Kerala as BJP MP candidate and actor Suresh Gopi is set to win the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat.
He is leading with a margin of over 74,000 votes.
Suresh became an official member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in October 2016. He ran as a BJP candidate from the Thrissur constituency in Kerala for the 2019 Indian general election. He finished third in the election behind the Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate Rajaji Mathew Thomas, who came in second, and lost to T.N. Prathapan of the Indian National Congress (INC). He was able to secure 293,822 votes, more than twice as many as the BJP candidate got in the last election.
He submitted a nomination in 2021 to run for a seat in the Kerala Legislative Assembly in the upcoming election. He claimed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited him to run in the election for the legislature. As a BJP candidate, he ran in the Thrissur Assembly constituency. Nevertheless, he was defeated by P. Balachandran of the CPI, finishing third overall with 40,457 votes, behind INC candidate Padmaja Venugopal. He was declared the BJP’s contender from the Thrissur seat for the Kerala Lok Sabha elections in March 2024.
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