India, March 24 -- Kerala BJP president K Surendran is set to contest from Wayanad, the constituency where incumbent MP and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is running again.

It is not yet clear if Congress will also field Rahul Gandhi from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, where he lost in 2019.

1. K Surendran is a prominent leader from north Kerala who became the BJP state president in 2020.

2. He contested the Lok Sabha elections from Pathanamthitta constituency in 2019 and secured the third position.

3. During the Sabarimala agitation in 2018, Surendran was arrested and spent over a month in jail.

4. In the 2021 Kerala assembly polls, he contested from two constituencies, Manjeswaram and Konni, but lost both contests.

5. Surendran a...