Palakkad (Kerala), March 27 Union Minister of State Suresh Gopi said on Friday that leaders like BJP members K Surendran and Sobha Surendran, who are contesting in the Kerala Assembly elections on April 9, are needed in the state legislature.
Surendran is contesting from the Manjeshwar Assembly seat, while Sobha is vying for the Palakkad constituency.
Gopi, the Union Minister of State for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Tourism, said that he was not saying that other BJP candidates are not valuable.
"Rajeev Chandrasekhar can analyze issues and speak about them clearly, but leaders like Surendran and Sobha are invaluable for communicating public outrage," he said while speaking at a party election event here.
He said that had leaders like them been in the last Assembly, they would have demanded that the chief minister return the gold allegedly misappropriated from Sabarimala. Instead, the Assembly witnessed the CPI(M) and the Congress "playing cards" by throwing the names of each other's leaders who were allegedly involved in the Sabarimala gold loss issue, Gopi said.