BJP Nominates Pon Radhakrishnan For Kanyakumari Lok Sabha Bypoll
Pon Radhakrishnan can be BJP candidate for the April 6 bypoll. (Record picture)
New Delhi/Chennai:
The BJP on Saturday named senior party chief and previous Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan as its candidate for the April 6 bypoll to the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu.
The bypoll used to be necessitated because of the demise of Congress MP H Vasantha Kumar in August ultimate 12 months because of COVID-19.
The BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC), which met previous below its Nationwide President JP Nadda and attended through Top Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and House Minister Amit Shah, licensed the candidature of Radhakrishnan, the party introduced in a observation in Delhi.
The BJP had on past due Friday night time, clinched its seat-sharing take care of its southern best friend AIADMK for the April 6 Meeting polls within the state the place the latter, the lead spouse, allotted 20 seats to the BJP, but even so the Kanyakumari parliamentary section, but even so extending its complete give a boost to to the candidate.
Mr Radhakrishnan had gained from Kanyakumari within the 2014 parliamentary polls to be inducted in then Top Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA dispensation as Minister of State, however misplaced the next 2019 Lok Sabha elections to Mr Kumar from the similar constituency.
He used to be then MoS Finance and Transport.
Mr Radhakrishnan may be a former state BJP president.
