Shobha Surendran – First Keralite to be a national office worker of BJP

Shobha Surendran is a politician from Kerala, India, who is affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Shobha Surendran is the first woman from the Kerala BJP to be elected to a national office. She has served as the BJP Mahila Morcha’s state president. She is also a member of the Chennai Petroleum Corporation’s board of directors. She is now the National Co-Incharge, BJP Membership Drive.

Shobha Surendran on Twitter

Shobha Surendran joined twitter in 2017 and has been active since then. She has been followed by over 15k people. She is very popular on facebook and her facebook page is liked by over 3 lakh people.

Family

Sobha was born in the Wadakkanchery region of Kerala’s Thrissur district. Shobha is married to K. K. Surendran, a Wadakkanchery-based Bharatiya Janata Party politician.

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Career of Shobha Surendran

Shobha Surendran was the Mahila Morcha’s state president. She was the state general secretary of the party and a member of the party’s core committee. She was then promoted to vice-president from state general secretary.

In 2016, she came in second place with 40,087 votes in a close race. Shobha Surendran was running for legislative assembly and general elections on a BJP ticket at the time, as the party’s state general secretary.

Her electoral results have improved the party’s vote share over time. Shobha Surendran was hesitant to accept the position of state vice-president after being selected, causing a rift within the party. Among an interview, she stated that she would welcome the Muslim League into the NDA, which caused some consternation in the BJP. K. Surendran, the state head of the BJP, denied her claim.

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Controversies

Shobha made offensive statements about the police and threatened SP Yathish Chandra during the BJP’s protest march following K. Surendran’s imprisonment in Kannur in 2018. Kerala Police took her into custody.

One of the prominent figures arrested by police during the Sabarimala protests was Shobha. She fasted for 48 hours in favor of PSC job hopefuls protesting the Secretariat’s PSC rank lists. Shobha then met with Kerala Governor and obtained assurances that he will act in the best interests of job seekers.

Shobha claimed in November 2020 that the party’s president, K. Surendran, had orchestrated a political plot against her, both personally and politically, in order to put an end to her political career.

She filed a letter of complaint to JP Nadda, the BJP’s national president, and Amit Shah, the government home minister.