New Delhi, May 4 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates BP Gopakumar, Rajeev Chandrasekhar and V Muraleedharan won from Chathannoor, Nemom and Kazhakoottam seats, respectively, in Kerala assembly elections this year.

According to the Election Commission website, Gopakumar received 51,923 votes and won by a margin of 4,398, while V. Muraleedharan secured 46,564 votes and won by a margin of 428. Chandrasekhar garnered 57,192 votes and won by a margin of 4,978.

Chandrasekhar told reporters at the party headquarters that "this was an anti-CPI(M) election" as the citizens of the state were "fed up with their corruption and alleged misappropriation of gold from Sabarimala". While recalling that the Congress and CPI(M) had claimed that BJP...