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Now all eyes are on from which constituency would Sreedharan contest as the BJP candidate.
The deceased has been identified as 22-year-old Nandu Krishna. Six others were also injured. BJP is observing a dawn-to-dusk (6am to 6pm) hartal in the district to protest the violence.
This way, the central leadership of the BJP could also ensure that the infighting in the state unit of the party does not affect the electoral prospects in Kerala in a way.
After the BJP won the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 it adopted the shrewd political strategy of capturing power in states by toppling governments opposed to it.
The Congress government in Puducherry fell on Monday after Chief Minister V Narayanasamy resigned ahead of the confidence vote in the Assembly with the coalition ministry reduced to a minority due to a spate of resignations of party MLAs.
After two legislators leaving the party on Sunday, the government's numbers had dropped to 11 MLAs in the assembly where 14 is the majority mark.
Surendran believes that it would not be a difficult task for the party to raise its vote share to 30 per cent from the current 16 per cent votes.
With the new development, the Congress alliances strength further slipped to 13, while the opposition has 14 MLAs in the 33-member house which has five vacancies.
Sreedharan's entry into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is being seen as a major boost for the party in election-bound Kerala. The state has been ruled by the LDF and the Congress-led UDF alternately for the past many years.
The saffron party's local wing hopes to make the renowned engineer its trump card in the impending polls in Kerala, one of the toughest political terrains for the party.