Thiruvananthapuram, July 27 (IANS) BJP Kerala President and MLA, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Monday accused a section of the Malayalam media of carrying out a coordinated campaign against the party by allegedly publishing baseless and fabricated reports without verification.In a sharply worded statement, Rajeev said the BJP had taken serious note of what he termed as organised attacks by certain media houses over the past few days.He alleged that journalists who published the reports had not even f…
Latest Rajeev Chandrasekhar News & Updates
Thiruvananthapuram, July 24 (IANS) BJP Kerala president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday accused Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan of giving priority to national political campaigns over the concerns of students and job aspirants in Kerala, taking a swipe at the Chief Minister’s participation in the Rahul Gandhi-led Opposition protest against the NEET paper leak and police action against protesting students on July 20 in New Delhi.Visiting LP School Teacher rank holders who have been staging an indefi…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 22 (IANS) A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) march to the KPCC headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, organised in protest against the Congress demonstration outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence in New Delhi, turned tense after police used water cannons to disperse the protesters. The march, led by BJP state president and MLA Rajeev Chandrasekhar, was described as a response to the Congress protest in Delhi against the Union government and PM Modi. Po…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 15 (IANS) Kerala BJP President and MLA Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday called for a comprehensive investigation into the alleged conspiracy behind the death threat issued against the Legislature Party leader and Chathannoor MLA, B.B. Gopakumar, stating that the incident cannot be treated as a mere case of a threatening phone call.According to the FIR registered by Chathannoor Police, a case has been booked after Gopakumar received a phone call in which he was allegedly…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 9 (IANS) Kerala unit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday dismissed as completely false an alleged BJP office circular that has been circulating on social media platforms and aired by some television news channels, asserting that the document was fabricated to malign the party.In a statement, Chandrasekhar, one of the BJP’s three MLAs in the 140-member Kerala Assembly, categorically denied reports suggesting financial irregularities in …
Thiruvananthapuram, June 27 (IANS) Escalating its campaign over issues relating to Sabarimala, BJP Kerala president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday urged Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan to order a CBI probe into the alleged disappearance of gold from the hill shrine and unconditionally withdraw all criminal cases registered against Ayyappa devotees during the Sabarimala protests.In a letter to Chief Minister Satheesan, Chandrasekhar said the issues were of immense significance to millions of Ayya…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 26 (IANS) Kerala BJP President, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Friday used the anniversary of the 1975 Emergency to call for constant vigilance in safeguarding the Constitution, asserting that its protection was the collective responsibility of every citizen and not merely that of political parties or governments.Addressing a function organised to mark the anniversary of the Emergency, Rajeev Chandrasekhar alleged that the Emergency imposed by the Congress government nearly fi…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 20 (IANS) India’s transformation from a country once criticised globally for corruption and lack of vision to the world’s fifth-largest economy was the result of a decisive change in governance under the Narendra Modi government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Saturday. Inaugurating the Navabharat Sadas, organised by the BJP as part of the celebrations marking 12 years of the Modi government, Chandrasekhar said the country, …
Thiruvananthapuram, June 14 (IANS) Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan over his criticism of three university Vice-Chancellors who attended an RSS centenary programme addressed by RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat, accusing the Chief Minister of hypocrisy on secularism and constitutional values.The BJP leader’s remarks came after Satheesan described the participation of the Vice-Chancellors in the RSS event as a “serious l…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 12 (IANS) Marking 12 years of the Narendra Modi-led Union government, Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday claimed that the state had witnessed a significant development push under the Prime Minister’s leadership, while accusing successive state governments of weakening Kerala’s economic foundations. Chandrasekhar said the Centre’s interventions had transformed key sectors in Kerala, citing record investments in railways, road infr…