The BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate for Thiruvananthapuram, O. Rajagopal, had secured 36.38 per cent votes in the Vattiyoorkavu assembly constituency in the last general Lok Sabha polls in 2014, a significant rise from 11.98 per cent in 2011. Vattiyoorkavu is other of the two assembly constituencies where BJP fancies a chance of opening an account in the Kerala assembly. Needless to say, the party has shown its intention by fielding its State president Kummanam Rajasekharan Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] had nominated T.N. Seema. Tough contest among the three fronts is in the offing.
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