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: Kerala police on Saturday registered a case against over 200 people in connection with a horse race held near here for violating the COVID-19 health protocols. Police said they have registered three cases one against the organisers, another against around 20 jockeys and the third against around 200 unidentified people who had gathered around a temple at Thathamangalam, a village on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. We had warned the temple committee members not to violate the health protocol and they assured that the biennialhorse race will be conducted only in a symbolic manner. But, somehow over 50 horses and jockeys reached the spot and it became a race. We immediately stopped the event and dispersed the crowd, the police told PTI. ....
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Palakkad Assembly constituency, Metroman E Sreedharan on Tuesday said his party will for sure put an impressive show in the Kerala Assembly Elections adding that he will win from Palakkad with a big margin. After casting vote at a polling booth in Ponnani, E Sreedharan said, BJP will have an impressive show this time, there is no doubt about it. I will win from the Palakkad constituency with a big margin. My entry into BJP has given a different image to the party. Sreedharan is contesting against sitting MLA Shafi Parambil of Congress and CP Pramod of CPI-M.Sreedharan, the architect of the metro rail system in the country, joining the BJP was a much-celebrated event among the BJP lovers in and out of the state. BJP hopes to get the benefit from their undeclared Chief Minister face, Sreedharan s candidature throughout the state. ....
Kerala BJP chief on Thursday announced that Metro Man E Sreedharan will be the party s chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming state Assembly polls. E Sreedharan will be BJP s Chief Minister candidate in the upcoming Kerala Assembly Elections 2021, Surendran said. Earlier in the day, E Sreedharan visited the Palarivattom flyover which is being reconstructed now. He said the people of Kerala will elect his party to power and he is expecting a big victory in the Assembly elections. People know very well what is good for them and what is good for the state. I am very confident they will elect BJP to power. I am expecting a big victory, he said. ....
With E Sreedharan throwing his hat in the political ring by deciding to join the BJP, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the technocrat is likely to have a minimal impact on the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls, and asserted that the BJP is not a serious contender except in a few seats in the state. Tharoor also said it will be very difficult for the BJP to improve upon its performance of winning one seat in the 2016 assembly polls and the high point of Sreedharan s impact on Kerala elections will turn out to be the announcement of joining the BJP itself. ....