Lok Sabha Election 2024: Actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi has been made the candidate by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Thrissur seat in Kerala. He recently donated a gold crown to a church. There is now a controversy regarding this crown. In fact, a section has raised doubts over the amount of gold used in the crown. Due to this, the Parish Council of the Church has formed a special committee to investigate the crown donated to the Church.
Many parishioners suspect that the crown is made of gold-coated copper. According to the information, Gopi had offered this crown made of more than 500 grams of gold on the statue of Mother Mary at Our Lady of Lourdes Metropolitan Cathedral in Thrissur on January 15. The actor along with his wife and daughter had decorated the statue with a crown.
Crown offered before daughter’s marriage
This step of the actor is now being considered as a political ploy to woo the Christian vote bank and get a BJP ticket from Thrissur. It is noteworthy that on January 17, he met the Prime Minister at Sri Krishna Temple in Guruvayoor, Thrissur. Narendra Modi And made the donation two days before his daughter’s wedding in the presence of veterans of the Malayalam film industry.
The crown will be examined
In this regard, parishioner and Congress ward councilor Leela Varghese told The Telegraph on Monday (March 4), “I took up this matter with the Parish Priest, as there are a lot of rumors regarding the crown. The Parish Council will investigate it.” “Since the Parish Council scrutinizes all gifts and offerings received, it seemed ideal to scrutinize this crown.” At present Gopi has not commented on this controversy.
BJP had given ticket from Thrissur seat
It is noteworthy that BJP recently Lok Sabha Elections A list of 195 candidates was released for. In this, the party had also announced the names of Kerala candidates, in which Union Ministers V Muraleedharan and Rajiv Chandrasekhar were given election tickets from Attingal and Thiruvananthapuram respectively. Whereas, tickets were given to Dr. Abdul Salam from Malappuram, Kerala and Suresh Gopi from Thrissur.