Thrissur Lok Sabha Election 2024: The key contest in Thrissur Lok Sabha seat goes to be between CPI’s VS Sunil Kumar, Congress’ K Muraleedharan and BJP’s Suresh Gopi. Polling dates for the overall elections are but to be introduced by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Thrissur is among the 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala and has seven Assembly segments together with Guruvayur, Manalur, Ollur, Thrissur, Nattika (SC), Irinjalakuda and Puthukkad.
The ruling Left has named the previous Agriculture Minister VS Sunilkumar; Congress has fielded K Muraleedharan, who’s the sitting member from the Badagara Lok Sabha constituency in Kozhikode district and the BJP has named in style actor Suresh Gopi.
The sitting Thrissur MP of the Congress TN Prathapan received the 2019 polls with 93,633 votes defeating CPI chief Rajaji Mathew Thomas.
PM Modi election marketing campaign in Thrissur
In January this yr, Prime Minister Modi kick-started the marketing campaign of Gopi in Thrissur and in addition addressed an all-women gathering.
Congress’ Muraleedharan says happy to return to hometown
Muraleedharan stated that he’s happy to return to his hometown the place he was born and his marketing campaign will start after visiting his home in Thrissur the place his mother and father stay.
“CPI-M and the BJP are hand-in-glove. Whatever happens, the Congress at no cost will allow the BJP to win in Kerala. Nemom assembly constituency is the best example. The BJP lost their only sitting seat in the Kerala Assembly which they won in 2016,” stated Muraleedharan.
Muraleedharan, although he completed third, garnered sizeable votes pushing the BJP candidate to second place, making the incumbent State Education Minister V Sivankutty win the Nemom seat.
Will presence of catholic Christian neighborhood assist Suresh Gopi in Thrissur
With a really sturdy Catholic Christian neighborhood in Thrissur, Gopi seems assured and has tried his greatest to make inroads into the highly effective area of Catholic monks.
Sunilkumar, nevertheless, sits comfortably as all of the seven meeting constituencies — that make up the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency — (4 CPI-M and three CPI) are held by the ruling Left.
With Sunilkumar and Gopi already hitting the marketing campaign path and Muraleedharan starting his on Saturday, Thrissur is ready to witness what maybe might be some of the keenly contested triangular-fights in Kerala.
Thrissur Lok Sabha seat outcomes 2014 and 2019
- In 2014, CPI’s CN Jayadevan defeated Congress’ KP Dhanapalan by a margin of 38,227 votes. CN Jayadevan obtained a complete of 42.27 per cent votes whereas Congress chief secured 38.12 per cent votes.
- In 2019, Congress’ TN Prathapan defeated CPI’s Rajaji Mathew Thomas by a margin of 93,633 votes. Congress TN Prathapan obtained 39.83 per cent votes whereas CPI’s candidate secured 30.85 per cent vote share.
