A case was on Monday registered towards president of BJP’s Kerala unit K Surendran by Kasargod police for allegedly influencing a namesake candidate to withdraw his nomination throughout 2021 state meeting election.
The criticism was filed by CPI(M) candidate V V Rameshan, who had contested from Manjeshwaram constituency in Kasargod, on court docket’s route into the matter.
The case was filed towards Surendran beneath Sections 171B, E of the IPC.
K Sundara, a BSP candidate of Manjeswaram constituency in Kasaragod district and a namesake of Surendran, had on March 22 this yr withdrawn his nomination papers and prolonged help to the BJP. Surendran, nonetheless, misplaced the election.
The similarity between the duo’s names is alleged to have helped Sundara garner 467 votes within the constituency as an unbiased in the course of the 2016 Assembly polls during which Surendran had misplaced to IUML nominee P B Abdul Razzaq by 89 votes.
Sundara has now alleged that he was given Rs 2.5 lakh for withdrawing the nomination towards Surendran in 2021 Kerala meeting elections. “The BJP leaders requested me to withdraw my candidature. I had requested for Rs 15 lakh however they gave me Rs 2.5 lakh solely and a cell phone price Rs 15,000. I had additionally requested for a wine store in Karnataka in the event that they had been capable of win the seat. But as soon as the election was over nobody bothered to name me,” Sundara informed the media.
However, the BJP has dismissed the allegations as baseless and said it was a conspiracy against the party.
“We did not offer him anything to withdraw his nomination. He had publicly explained why he withdrew his candidature. Now he has changed his stance. It seems like someone is coercing him. We doubt that he is raising such allegations due to the pressure from CPI(M) and the IUML,” PTI quoted BJP district president K Sreekanth as saying.
The CPI(M) has accused the BJP of utilizing giant quantities of black cash within the meeting polls. IUML’s A K M Ashraf had received the seat with 65,758 votes, whereas Surendran managed to bag 65,013 votes. Rameshan obtained 40,639 votes.
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