: Eyeing the vote of minorities in 2024, AIADMK cosying up to Cong in TN #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics By Arun LakshmanChennai, July 24 (IANS) The overwhelming victory of Edappadi K. Palaniswami as

Eyeing the vote of minorities in 2024, AIADMK cosying up to Cong in TN #IndiaNEWS #National ,Politics
By Arun LakshmanChennai, July 24 (IANS) The overwhelming victory of Edappadi K. Palaniswami as the general secretary of AIADMK in the July 11 general council of the party, decimating the opposition raised by senior leader O. Panneerselvam, has caused the party to rethink its political strategies.
According to insiders in the party, AIADMK has commenced discussions with the Congress party in Tamil Nadu aiming for the 2024 general elections and wants to snap ties with BJP. The presence of a large number of minority votes in Tamil Nadu is one of the major reasons for AIADMK under Edappadi K. Palaniswami to rework its strategies.
The entry of K. Annamalai as the head of Tamil Nadu BJP and his aggressive postures have led to the party gaining ground in the state and there is a general feeling that the saffron party was growing at the expense of AIADMK. More than this, BJP under Annamalai has turned into an aggressive political movement and this has also systematically led to the minority communities of Tamil Nadu to distance themselves from the saffron party.
Sources in AIADMK told IANS that if the party continues its alliance with NDA, the possibility of it getting sidelined in Tamil Nadu politics will be a reality.
Dr. G. Padmanabhan, Director, Socio-Economic Development Foundation, a think tank based out of Madurai while speaking to IANS said: The move of AIADMK is expected as in Tamil Nadu politics, you have to have an alliance with the minority communities to make a mark and AIADMK is now out of that loop. On the other hand, the party cannot piggy-back ride with the Hindutva politics as BJP is asserting itself under Annamalai. Hence, AIADMK has to reinvent itself and with the party coming under a single leader rule, he can make a decision, and possibilities of that decision coming up openly are there in the near future.
AIADMK has a single Member of Parliament in the 2019 general elections out of the 38 seats with O. Panneerselvams son, O. P. Raveendranath who won from the Theni Lok Sabha seat. He is now expelled from the party and this will technically mean that AIADMK does not have an elected representative in the Parliament.
After the convincing victory in AIADMK general council elections, Edappadi K. Palaniswami held a brainstorming session with the party senior leaders and have got feedback on snapping ties with the NDA and reinventing itself to be battle-savvy in the 2024 general elections and to catapult to power in the 2026 assembly elections.
With the DMK under Stalin bringing in several reforms and aiming at a trillion-dollar economy, the AIADMK leadership is planning to be in the political realm of things as without getting seats, party will turn into a non-entity.

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