India, March 26 -- By Sandeep Singh

Thrissur (Kerala) [India], March 26 (ANI): Ahead of the Assembly polls in Kerala, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate from Thrissur, Padmaja Venugopal, on Thursday said that had K Karunakaran, the four-time Congress Chief Minister of Kerala "would have joined the BJP,"

Padmaja (66), who had contested unsuccessfully on the Congress ticket in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections and the subsequent Assembly elections of 2016 and 2024 from the state's cultural capital, Thrissur, joined the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in 2024. The BJP had in the 2024 general elections won the Thrissur seat with actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi as its candidate.

She also attributed her exit from Congress to the interfe...