There’s prone to be a ballot contest between BJPs Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Congress’ Shashi Tharooe,
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Chandrasekhar’s parliamentary journey started in 2006. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in Could 2006, representing Karnataka
Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar was fielded by the BJP on Saturday as its candidate from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in a doable ballot contest with Congress chief Shashi Tharoor who’s a three-time Lok Sabha member of the Congress from the identical seat.
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering on Saturday launched its first checklist of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress, nevertheless, is but to launch its checklist of candidates for the overall elections which can be prone to be performed in April-Could.
Just lately, Chandrasekhar, who’s among the many Union ministers not renominated to the Rajya Sabha instructed PTI that he’s raring to contest his first Lok Sabha polls and looking out ahead to “an much more thrilling part” in his political profession. His present Rajya Sabha time period will finish on April 2.
The minister of state for talent growth and entrepreneurship, and electronics and knowledge know-how, Chandrasekhar has labored with international tech giants, corresponding to Intel.
Chandrasekhar’s parliamentary journey started in 2006. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in Could 2006, representing Karnataka.
As soon as a chip designer, he has been a key voice of the Modi authorities on points together with digitisation, rising applied sciences, synthetic intelligence (AI) and web.
One must be extraordinarily accountable and a grassroots politician to be a Lok Sabha member and he’s ”deeply lucky” that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP management have thought of him worthy of it, the know-how entrepreneur-turned-politician mentioned.
As per an NDTV report, the BJP’s selection of Chandrasekhar for the Thiruvananthapuram seat is a sign of the saffron occasion’s give attention to the southern states, the place it has been unable to make a mark in 2019, profitable solely 29 of the 129 seats (130 together with Puducherry).
The BJP is eyeing on the southern states to assist attain their goal of profitable 370 seats by itself within the Lok Sabha polls – up from the 303 it had gained in 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi additionally performed a two-day go to to Tamil Nadu and Kerala simply this week.
Within the checklist of 195 names that have been launched by the BJP on Saturday, 12 names have been introduced for Kerala.
(with PTI inputs)
