Thrissur, Dec. 12 -- With hardly few hours before the counting of votes polled in the Local Body elections held in Kerala, will the"Suresh Gopi effect" will change the outcome and redraw the political map of Thrissur Corporation?The question dominates among the political analysts, barely a year after the actor-turned-politician shattered Kerala's electoral equations.
Gopi's landslide victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Thrissur with a staggering margin of 74,840 votes was celebrated as a watershed moment for the BJP in Kerala. It was the party's first-ever Lok Sabha seat in the state, achieved by a man who stormed both the Left Democratic Front and the Congress-led United Democratic Front bastions.
In the 2021 Assembly elections, G...