Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by BJP leaders at Central Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram where he address an election rally on Thursday. NDA candidates in Thiruvananthapuram and Attingal, Kummanam Rajasekharan and Sobha Surendran, BJP state president P. S. Sreedharan Pillai, BJP TVM president S. Suresh, and BJP state general secretary M.T. Ramesh are seen.—A.V. MUZAFAR