{"id":1341,"date":"2025-03-24T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2025-03-24T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:55:28","slug":"rajeev-chandrasekhar-elected-as-kerala-bjp-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Rajeev Chandrasekhar Elected as Kerala BJP President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Union Minister <strong>Rajeev Chandrasekhar<\/strong> has been elected as the new <strong>Kerala state president<\/strong> of the <strong>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)<\/strong>. The announcement was made on Monday by the party\u2019s central observer <strong>Prahlad Joshi<\/strong> during the BJP\u2019s state council meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chandrasekhar was the <strong>sole nominee<\/strong> for the top post and had submitted two sets of nomination papers at the BJP headquarters on Sunday. Prominent party leaders, including outgoing president <strong>K Surendran<\/strong> and state in-charge <strong>Prakash Javadekar<\/strong>, were present at the event. Surendran formally handed over the party flag to Chandrasekhar on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his address, Surendran highlighted the <strong>unprecedented growth<\/strong> of the BJP in Kerala over the past <strong>10 years<\/strong>. He emphasized that Chandrasekhar\u2019s <strong>experience and expertise<\/strong> across various sectors would further accelerate the party\u2019s expansion in the state. Dismissing criticism that Chandrasekhar is not a conventional politician, Surendran expressed confidence in his ability to excel in the new role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At <strong>60 years old<\/strong>, Chandrasekhar brings <strong>two decades of political experience<\/strong> to the position. He has served as <strong>Union Minister of State<\/strong> for <strong>Electronics &amp; IT, Skill Development &amp; Entrepreneurship, and Jal Shakti<\/strong>. Additionally, he has been a <strong>three-term Rajya Sabha MP<\/strong> from Karnataka and a <strong>BJP national spokesperson<\/strong>. Currently, he also serves as the <strong>vice-chairman<\/strong> of the NDA\u2019s Kerala unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A familiar figure in Kerala politics, Chandrasekhar contested the <strong>2024 Lok Sabha elections<\/strong> from <strong>Thiruvananthapuram<\/strong> as the NDA candidate but narrowly lost to <strong>Shashi Tharoor<\/strong> of the Congress by <strong>16,077 votes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in <strong>Ahmedabad, Gujarat<\/strong>, to Keralite parents, Chandrasekhar has deep family roots in <strong>Thrissur<\/strong>. His father-in-law is <strong>TPG Nambiar<\/strong>, the founder of <strong>BPL Group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election was conducted as <strong>K Surendran\u2019s<\/strong> five-year term as Kerala BJP president came to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has been elected as the new Kerala state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The announcement was made on Monday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}