The BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda today expressed this gratitude to the people of Kerala for giving an improved mandate to BJP in the local body elections and lauded state BJP President K Surendran and party workers for working tirelessly. He also said that BJP will continue to expose the corrupt, communal, and hypocrite politics of both the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF).

In Kerala local body polls, CPI(M)-led LDF, was able to outperform Congress-led UDF and BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). NDA finished second with 34 seats but was able to cause a major upset to Left by trouncing its sitting Mayor candidate K Sreeekumar as well as mayor probable Pushpalatha.

Final results showed LDF retaining the Corporation with 51 wards, while UDF saw one of its worst performances by settling with 10 wards. The ruling CPI(M)-led LDF is leading in more than 500 out of the total 941-gram panchayats, according to the State Election Commission figures from Wednesday. The Congress-led UDF was ahead in 375 gram-panchayats while NDA is leading in 22 gram panchayats.

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