BJP MP Suresh Gopi, who won from Thrissur in 2024, grew emotional while recalling his victory.
Published Sep 30, 2025 | 8:21 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 30, 2025 | 8:21 PM
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Synopsis: Suresh Gopi described himself as a “victim” of a political smear campaign and rejected allegations that he had lobbied for Tamil Nadu to secure an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a project long demanded by Kerala.
Union Minister of State Suresh Gopi has stirred yet another controversy in Thrissur, with remarks alleging that “those elected by corpses” were deceiving the people of Kerala.
Speaking at a neighbourhood town hall under his Kalingu Gathering Campaign, Gopi claimed that voters “dead for 25 years” had been used in elections, adding that the issue was earlier reported by the media.
The BJP MP, who won from Thrissur in 2024, grew emotional while recalling his victory.
According to him, he had contested from Thrissur and won from there and not from Thiruvananthapuram and Palakkad where BJP had a strong base.
He described himself as a “victim” of a political smear campaign and rejected allegations that he had lobbied for Tamil Nadu to secure an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a project long demanded by Kerala.
Gopi said he merely suggested alternative sites in Tamil Nadu when the state government resisted proposals for a Forensic Sciences Centre in Thrissur, which Union Home Minister Amit Shah had assured him.
He accused the Kerala government of obstructing central projects and insisted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him why Alappuzha was excluded from the AIIMS shortlist.
Dismissing critics, Gopi said he was being vilified for trivial matters — from temple offerings to his film career — while trying to fulfil his ministerial duties.
According to The Hindu report, Gopi said that “valueless people with no destiny of their own” were hounding him with controversies. He said his accusers alleged that he offered copper (a circlet he gifted to a shrine for Mother Mary) instead of gold. “They accused me of disrupting the Thrissur Pooram for electoral gain. When I am in Delhi doing my job, they say that I am never in Kerala. When I act in films, they say I am incapable of administration”, he said.
(Edited by Sumavarsha, with inputs from Suresh Gopi)
