BJP state president K Surendran has on Wednesday stated that some congress leaders are waiting to join the saffron party in Kerala. .
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Congress leader and former sports council president Padmini Thomas and former Thiruvananthapuram district Congress general secretary Thampanoor Satheesh on Thursday joined the BJP.
BJP state president K Surendran has on Wednesday stated that some congress leaders are waiting to join the saffron party in Kerala. .
Notably, the entry of Padmini Thomas and Thampanoor Satheesh came on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fifth campaign foray into Kerala this year. Prime Minister Modi will address a BJP rally in Pathanamthitta on Friday where Veteran Congress leader AK Antony’s son , Anil K. Antony, is fighting under the BJP banner.
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Both Padmini Thomas and Thampanoor Satheesh attended the inauguration of the BJP election office in Thiruvananthapuram. Thampanoor Satheesh, a staunch K. Karunakaran group insider, is widely reckoned to be a loyalist of Padmaja Venugopal, who joined the BJP recently
Padmini Thomas, the 1982 Asian Games medalist and Arjuna Award winner, was president of the Kerala State Sports Council in a former Congress disposition.
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