India, May 3 -- Padmaja Venugopal is a prominent political activist in Kerala and a former General Secretary of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), as well as a leader of the Congress Women's Wing. She is the daughter of former Kerala Chief Minister K. Karunakaran.

Following differences with the KPCC leadership and the Thrissur District Congress Committee since 2021, Padmaja Venugopal left the Congress on 7 March 2024 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She has been a member of the BJP National Council since March 2025 and is contesting again from the Thrissur constituency in the 2026 Assembly elections as a BJP candidate.

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