After LS polls, AICC office in Delhi will be closed forever: Padmaja Venugopal

Padmaja Venugopal, daughter of four-time Congress Chief Minister K. Karunakaran, who recently joined the BJP, on Friday said the after the Lok Sabha polls, AICC office in Delhi will be closed forever. 

After LS polls, AICC office in Delhi will be closed forever: Padmaja Venugopal
Source: IANS

Thiruvananthapuram, March 15 (IANS) Padmaja Venugopal, daughter of four-time Congress Chief Minister K. Karunakaran, who recently joined the BJP, on Friday said the after the Lok Sabha polls, AICC office in Delhi will be closed forever. 

Addressing a rally in Pathanamthitta before the arrival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Padmaja Venugopal said, "I assure you that this time in Kerala, the BJP will open its account, though I will not predict how many seats it will bag."

"It's now clear that the Congress party does not want the children of Karunakaran. When I realised it, I quit the Congress and am now preparing to receive my brother K. Muraleedharan, who will soon realise what I said is true," she said.

K. Muraleedharan is the sitting Lok Sabha member from Badagara and this time, he has been fielded from Thrissur.

Padmaja had unsuccessfully contested as a Congress candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, 2016 and 2021 assembly polls.