Indira Gandhi is ‘Mother of India’ : Suresh Gopi, Union Minister and BJP’s MP from Kerela
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerela) – Suresh Gopi, who was elected as BJP’s first MP from Kerala, and subsequently became the Union Minister, referred to Indira Gandhi as the ‘Mother of India’. He also called K Karunakaran, late former Chief Minister of Kerala, an ‘able administrator’. He also addressed senior Marxist leader E K Nayanar as his ‘Political Guru’. Suresh Gopi said that ‘both these leaders from Kerala, i.e., K Karunakaran and E K Nayanar, have influenced my political journey’. He was speaking to the media at Karunakaran’s memorial ‘Murli Mandiram’ in Poonkunnam, Kerala. He visited here after taking oath as the Union Minister.
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