Amid the extreme campaigning for the Assembly Elections in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, ‘Election King’ Ok. Padmarajan has enthusiastically filed his nomination regardless of a number of failures up to now.
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm”, stated Winston Churchill. These phrases drive Election King’ Ok. Padmarajan, for whom dropping is winning.
The 61-year outdated impartial candidate is now gearing up for three election battles from two Southern Indian states – Tamil Nadu and Kerala. His motto – Losing, simply as he has been since 1988, when he first contested within the polls.
Ask him the names of leaders he’s contested towards, and the listing consists of “Vajpayee, Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh, Jayalalithaa, Karunanidhi, AK Antony, Yeddyurappa, SM Krishna, APJ Abdul Kalam, Ramnath Kovind, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi”.
This time round, for the Assembly polls in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, as typical, he’s picked the most important names to contest towards – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ok Palaniswami (who is contesting in his house turf Edappadi) and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vihayan who is contesting from Dharmadam in Kannur, moreover Mettur Assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, the place Padmarajan resides.
After having filed his 217th nomination to face the polls, Padmarajan is a contented man, hopeful of efficiently dropping this time as nicely. His goal is to show that even widespread residents might be within the ballot fray – whether or not the put up up for grabs is that of a Member of Legislative Assembly, Member of Parliament and even the President of India.
Having spent over Rs.50 lakhs, for contesting and constantly dropping on the polls over the past 33 years, Padmarajan has made it to a number of report books, together with the Limca Book of Records.
“I am the only Election King in the world” Padmarajan proclaims proudly. He’s additionally approached India’s Election Commission to register his get together – Election King Failure get together. He hopes that his streak of losses will at some point get him a spot within the Guinness Book of world data.
