Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah will arrive in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday to address the BJP candidates who won the local body elections. He will interact with the ward members, hold a meeting with the state leadership to discuss party programmes for the upcoming state assembly elections.
The BJP is expected to field senior leaders, including party’s state president Rajiv Chandrasekhar, former Union Minister V Muraleedharan, former state president K Surendran, Shobha Surendran in the upcoming polls. Instead of all the constituencies, the BJP has decided to focus on the 35 seats in Mission 2026. These will be the constituencies where it came first and second in the last elections and won a significant number of votes.
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The BJP’s strategy is to win sufficient seats so as to enable it to decide who will rule Kerala in 2026.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also arrive in Thiruvananthapuram la. With the BJP winning power in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation for the first time in history, there is a possibility that the prime minister will address a rally in Thiruvananthapuram on this trip . There is also curiosity as to whether the Prime Minister will make a big announcement in the capital.