BJP has confirmed that E Sreedharan is not the CM candidature in Kerala, after the BJP state president K Surendran projecting Metro Man the as Chief Ministerial candidate.
K Surendran blamed the media for misrepresenting his statements. He said he had not officially declared Sreedharan as the Chief Ministerial candidate but only echoed the wishes of the people of the state as well as the party to see him assume the post.
Kerala BJP chief K Surendran on Friday while addressing the media said," After Sreedharan joined BJP, Congress and CPM are panicking. This is what media reports suggest, BJP is about to make huge gains in Kerala with Sreedharan, media wants to stop it. BJP cadre needs the guidance of Sreedharan".
Union Minister V Muraleedharan on Thursday backtracked from his comments after he mistakenly claimed that the BJP has announced 'Metroman' E Sreedharan as its chief ministerial candidate for the Kerala elections.
As speculation over the BJP making Sreedharan the face of its campaign in Kerala heightened, V Muraleedharan seemed to confirm that the man behind the Delhi Metro will indeed be the party's CM candidate.
"Kerala BJP will fight Kerala polls with E Sreedharan Ji as its Chief Ministerial Candidate. We will defeat both the CPIM and the INC to provide a corruption-free, development-oriented Governance for the people of Kerala," Muraleedharan said in a tweet.
However, some hours later the Muraleedharan took back his words and his tweet was deleted.
"What I wanted to say was that through media reports I learnt that the party has made this announcement. Later, I cross-checked with the party chief who said that he has not made any such announcement," he clarified later.
