New Delhi: The Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency is ready to witness a excessive-profile contest with all of the three political fronts within the fray, however the highlight might be on the duel between the incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor and the BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The BJP has fielded its Union Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who obtained a grand reception by the get together employees when he arrived right here on Monday evening. The Minister was escorted by an enormous convoy of autos from the airport to the guts of town.
The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front has nominated former Thiruvananthapuram MP, Paniyan Ravindran, a seasoned CPI chief. Ravindran had gained a bypoll from the identical seat in 2005 after the demise of the sitting member, former Chief Minister and CPI veteran P.Ok. Vasudevan Nair.
The Congress is but to declare its candidates’ listing, however there isn’t any suspense about who it will likely be, as it’s apparent that Shashi Tharoor might be looking for re-election for the fourth consecutive time.
A former Undersecretary General on the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor was an sudden selection when he got here to India and after assembly the then Congress high brass secured a celebration ticket to contest the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Thiruvananthapuram.
Since then he has achieved a hat-trick of victories and the one powerful time he needed to face was in 2014 after the sudden dying of his spouse Sunanda Pushkar at a luxurious resort in Delhi. In the 2019 polls he gained with a margin of 99,989 votes, whereas in 2014 the margin was 15,470 and in his debut election in 2009 it was 99,998 votes.
Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, although a Malayalee has at all times been based mostly out of Bengaluru, is effectively-recognized to Keralites. His title has been linked with the BPL TV after he married the corporate founder’s daughter. He was a part of the then main electronics firm from 1994 until he offered his stakes in 2005.
Soon after the Union Minister landed right here Monday evening he began his marketing campaign and stated his focus might be to rework the state into a serious IT hub.
“Even though the capital city had the first IT park, Technopark, it has not reached to the level where it should have been,” stated Chandrasekhar. This election goes to be extra of a battle of personalities between the Congress and the BJP.
Interestingly, within the 2019 polls, the BJP got here second right here, whereas within the different 19 seats within the state, they needed to accept a distant third place.
