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Three-term Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor is trailing BJP leader and Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a debutant candidate in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, by nearly 23,000 votes, as of 12.15 pm on Tuesday.
Chandrasekhar is a former three-term Rajya Sabha MP.
Overall, post-noon trends for Kerala’s 20 Lok Sabha seats showed the Congress leading in 12, and the Indian Union Muslim League, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the BJP leading in two each.
If the BJP wins a seat in Kerala, it will be a crucial first for the party, which has been working to widen its reach in south India.
Crucial contests in Kerala 2024 include the one for Wayanad, where incumbent MP Rahul Gandhi, as of 12.15 pm, has a lead of more than 2 lakh votes over CPI’s Annie Raja. Kerala BJP K. Surendran is a distant third.
While the Congress and the Left Front are both I.N.D.I.A bloc allies, they contested against each other in Kerala.
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In Thrissur, actor-politician Suresh Gopi has a lead of over 61,200 votes against closest rival V.S. Sunilkumar of the CPI. K. Muraleedharan of the Congress is trailing third.
In Pathanamthitta, ground zero of the Sabarimala controversy, incumbent MP Anto Antony has a lead of 25,000 votes over former Kerala finance minister T.M. Thomas Issac of the CPM. The BJP’s Anil K. Antony – the son of Congress leader and former Union minister A.K. Antony – is third.
Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal has a comfortable lead of 47,000 votes in Alappuzha over the CPM’s A.M. Ariff and the BJP’s Sobha Surendran.
Meanwhile, Union minister V. Muraleedharan is trailing third in Attingal. V. Joy of the CPM has the lead, with Adoor Prakash of the Congress a close second.
Former Kerala health minister K.K. Shailaja Teacher of the CPM is in the second position in Vadakara, trailing behind Shafi Parambil of the Congress by over 72,000 votes.
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