New Delhi, Mar 22 (PTI) The BJP on Sunday named one more candidate for the upcoming Kerala assembly polls, fielding S Smitha from Varkala seat.
With this, the BJP has announced 98 candidates for the April 9 elections.
In its third list of 11 candidates released on Saturday, the party fielded its district president Karamana Jayan from Thiruvananthapuram.
Jayan will take on actor and LDF-backed Independent Sudheer Karamana and Communist Marxist Party (CMP) and UDF leader C P John.
Sitting MLA Antony Raju of the Janadhipathya Kerala Congress (JKC), an LDF ally, was disqualified following his conviction in a case related to evidence tampering.
Another key name in the list was businessman S Rajasekharan Nair, who will contest from Neyyattinkara.
He contested from Neyyattinkara in the 2021 assembly elections and finished third after CPI(M) leader K Ansalan and Congress leader R Selvaraj.
This time, he will face sitting MLA Ansalan and Congress candidate N Sakthan. PTI PK DIV DIV
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