<p><strong>Political Party: BJP</strong></p><p><strong>Parliamentary Constituency: Attingal, Kerala</strong></p>.<p>It was during <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/v-muraleedharan">V Muraleedharan</a>'s term as <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bjp">BJP</a> state president in Kerala that the NDA vote share entered double digits to reach 10.8 percent in 2014 Lok Sabha election.</p>.<p>In the 2016 Kerala Assembly elections, he was the runner-up at Kazhakootam seat in Thiruvananthapuram.</p>.<p>He was duly rewarded by the party and was made a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra in 2018 and was later made a minister of state for external affairs in the second Narendra Modi government.</p>.Lok Sabha Elections 2024: All you need to know about India's parliamentary polls.<p>A native of Kannur in North Kerala, Muraleedharan was actively involved in RSS and ABVP right from his student days. </p>.<p>Though he contested the Lok Sabha from Kozhikode in 2009, he came in third place.</p>.<p>This time he is taking on sitting MP Adoor Prakash of Congress and CPM Thiruvananthapuram district secretary V Joy at Attingal.</p>
<p><strong>Political Party: BJP</strong></p><p><strong>Parliamentary Constituency: Attingal, Kerala</strong></p>.<p>It was during <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/v-muraleedharan">V Muraleedharan</a>'s term as <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bjp">BJP</a> state president in Kerala that the NDA vote share entered double digits to reach 10.8 percent in 2014 Lok Sabha election.</p>.<p>In the 2016 Kerala Assembly elections, he was the runner-up at Kazhakootam seat in Thiruvananthapuram.</p>.<p>He was duly rewarded by the party and was made a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra in 2018 and was later made a minister of state for external affairs in the second Narendra Modi government.</p>.Lok Sabha Elections 2024: All you need to know about India's parliamentary polls.<p>A native of Kannur in North Kerala, Muraleedharan was actively involved in RSS and ABVP right from his student days. </p>.<p>Though he contested the Lok Sabha from Kozhikode in 2009, he came in third place.</p>.<p>This time he is taking on sitting MP Adoor Prakash of Congress and CPM Thiruvananthapuram district secretary V Joy at Attingal.</p>