Venugopal's possible election to the Lok Sabha will facilitate the BJP gaining one more seat in the upper house.
K C Venugopal campaigns in Alappuzha after declaring of his candidature.
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal’ candidature in Kerala’s Alappuzha constituency is causing friction between INDIA bloc and its constituent LDF. Alappuzha was the lone seat where the LDF won the 2019 general election with a slender majority. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked why Venugopal was fielded from a sitting CPI(M) seat. It is not a CPI(M) citadel, the Congress has retorted.