Shobha Surendran

Shobha Surendran
BJP national executive member
Palakkad Lok Sabha Candidate 2014 BJP
Personal details
Born Vadakkaanchery, Thrissur district
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) K. K. Surendran

Shobha Surendran (born Vadakkaanchery, Thrissur district, Kerala) is an Indian politician from Kerala, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In March 2013, she was elected to the national executive committee of the party and was the first woman BJP leader to held a position at the national level. Her husband K. K. Surendran is also a BJP leader in Kerala.[1] She has acted as the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha.[1]

Elections

In 2018, Sobha Surendran competed unsuccessfully in the Wadakkancherry by-election. She ran without success for election Ponnani in 2006, and in a by-election in Ernakulam in 2009.[2] Sobha Surendran ran for Puthukkad in the 2011 Kerala state assembly elections, but lost to C. Raveendranath of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M). In this election her husband, K. K. Surendran, ran for Kottakkal but lost to M. P. Abdussamad Samadani of the Indian Union Muslim League.[2] In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Sobha contested for the Palakkad constituency for BJP and lost.[3]

When the Kerala state leadership of the BJP decided to field Shobha Surendran as candidate for the state assembly Palakkad constituency in the May 2016 Kerala state assembly elections there were protests from the local leaders. They wanted to run a local candidate rather than Surendran, who is from Thrissur.[4] However, Sobha Surendran ran for Palakkad while her husband, K. K. Surendran, ran for Ponnani. The couple planned to support each other in their campaigns.[2] Sobha Surendran's opponents were Shafi Parambil of the Indian National Congress and N. N. Krishnadas of the CPI-M.[5] After being defeated in the election Shobha Surendran gave a formal complaint against Corporation vice chairman Krishna Kumar, whom she accused of using local BJP activist to support his own campaign in Malampuzha.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Smt Shobha Surendra". Kerala BJP. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  2. 1 2 3 "BJP's power couple". The Hindu. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  3. ↑ "Election Results 2014 for Palakkad". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Rift in BJP over fielding Shobha Surendran in Palakkad". The Hindu. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  5. ↑ A. Satish (16 April 2016). "Husband-wife Duo to Try Luck in Kerala Polls". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  6. ↑ "I was consciously defeated, says Shobha Surendran". Kerala Kaumudi Online. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
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