Overview

• Addressing BJP workers in Kannur, the Thrissur MP said he wants to step down and urged the party to make Rajya Sabha member C Sadanandan Master a Union minister.
• The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Tourism said his earnings have “completely stopped” since taking office and that he wishes to return to acting.
• There was no immediate confirmation of a formal resignation being submitted or accepted by the party or the government.
• Gopi, a Malayalam film star who joined the BJP in 2016 and entered the Lok Sabha in 2024, said he never sought a ministerial role over his cinema career.
• Sadanandan, a senior BJP leader from Kannur nominated to the Rajya Sabha earlier this year, is known as a survivor of a 1994 attack in which he lost both legs.