BJP Kerala woman leader says she is being ignored, ill treated, sidelined

With the Lok Sabha elections around the corner, it has now become clear that all is not well in the Kerala unit of the BJP.

The strife within the party came out in the open on Saturday as BJP Kerala vice president Sobha Surendran has lashed out at the state leadership of the party, specifically state president K Surendran.

In an interview given to a Malayalam news channel aired on Saturday night, Sobha Surendran said that she faced humiliation from the party state leadership.

She said she is not going away from the party, but she is being sidelined by the state leadership.

When questions were raised over her absence in party functions, false stories are created and circulated on her non-attendance, she said

“ Recently when Amit Shahji visited Trissur, my own district, I was not invited to his function. When questions about my absence on the stage of the public function arose, stories were circulated through online media that Sobha Surendran was not invited since she did something against the party,” she said.

Ms Surendran, a firebrand woman leader of Kerala BJP also alleged that Praksh Javedakar,the party prabhari of Kerala also did not intervene to end the ill treatment meted out to her by the party state leadership.

“After Prakash Javadekar has come as the new incharge of BJP in the state, discussions were held three times to strengthen the party in the state. But, the situation remained as before, many leaders, including myself, are being kept out,” Ms Surendran said