Thiruvananthapuram, Jan. 22 -- The Twenty20 party on Thursday joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of the upcoming Kerala assembly elections.

The announcement was made by Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajeev Chandrasekhar during a press conference alongside Twenty20 president Sabu M Jacob.

Chandrasekhar also announced that Sabu M Jacob's party will officially join the NDA in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when the PM visits Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. He claimed that the move was an expansion of NDA's political footprint and its political heft vis-a-vis the coming elections.

Speaking to the reporters here, the Kerala BJP president said that the aim was to spread the message of 'Viksit Ker...