Thiruvananthapuram | BJP leader and former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, set to take over as the BJP Kerala unit president, invoked the words of saint-reformer Sree Narayana Guru on success and growth in a social media post on Monday.

"Become enlightened through education, strengthened through organization, and prosperous through hard work." – Sree Narayana Guru#MondayMusings, Chandrasekhar wrote on 'X'.

He also posted a photograph of Guru, a sage who led a movement against the caste system last century. Guru's family belonged to Kerala's numerically strong Ezhava caste.

Meanwhile, a formal announcement of Chandrasekhar's election as BJP state president will be made following the party's state council meeting on Monday.

On Sunday, Chandrasekhar filed two sets of nomination papers for the position at the BJP headquarters in the state capital.