Former Kerala Congress leader Vijayan Thomas joins BJP

Vijayan Thomas had left the Congress owing to differences over the selection of candidates for the upcoming Kerala polls.

Vijayan Thomas, former secretary of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), joined the BJP at the party headquarters in Delhi on Friday. Thomas had left the Congress owing to differences over the selection of candidates for the upcoming Kerala polls. Meanwhile, Congress leaders from Kerala, including former chief minister Oommen Chandy, KPCC chief Mullappally Ramachandran, and Ramesh Chennithala, reached 10 Janpath in Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence, for a meeting of the party's central election committee (CEC).