"LS polls going to take place in favourable atmosphere for BJP in Kerala": Union Minister Muraleedharan

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], March 2 (ANI): Union Minister V. Muraleedharan, who has been fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Kerala's Attingal in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, said that the polls are going to take place in a very favourable atmosphere for his party in the southern state of the country.
Muraleedharan, while speaking to the reporters here expressed his confidence in the party managing a clear majority in the next general elections, expected to take place in May-April.
Hitting out at the ruling party of Kerala led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, he said that the people of Kerala are looking for a political change in the state.
"This Lok Sabha election is going to take place in a very favourable atmosphere for BJP in Kerala. The people of Kerala are looking for a political change in the state. The government is engaged in atrocities and corruption. People are fed up with corruption. There are a lot of allegations levelled against the state government," Muraleedharan said.
He further said that the peculiarity of this Lok Sabha election is that it is clear that 'the Narendra Modi government will come into power again'.
"The Congress party in Kerala is destroyed. The peculiarity of this Lok Sabha election is that it is clear that the Narendra Modi government will come into power again. The people of Kerala and the Attingal constituency have decided to support BJP candidates for bringing more development to the state. I hope they will exercise their voting rights with sense," he added.
The BJP's list of candidates for 12 seats in Kerala, announced as part of its first list in Delhi on Saturday, contains two union ministers, three women in addition to two minority faces. Besides the Mahila Morcha, the party also accommodated the Yuva Morcha representative into the list.
Senior BJP leader and Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar will take on three-time MP Shashi Tharoor in the Kerala capital of Thiruvananthapuram while Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan will contest from Attingal. As expected actor-turned-politician and ex-Rajya Sabha MP Suresh Gopi will seek people's mandate from Thrissur.
The national leadership decided to put Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader AK Antony in Pathanamthitta.
Senior leader MT Ramesh has been given the Kozhikode seat while the party's woman face in Kerala Shoba Surendran will be fielded from Alappuzha. The party has clear calculations in fielding ex-Calicut varsity VC Abdul Salam from Malappuram. (ANI)