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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday reaffirmed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will emerge as the biggest party in all five states of South India on June 4, the day on which counting of votes are scheduled to take place for the ongoing .
As campaigning winds down in Tamil Nadu ahead of polling in all 39 constituencies on Friday, one of the highly anticipated battles will unfold in the cosmopolitan business hub of Coimbatore between the DMK, the AIADMK, and the BJP.
As Tamil Nadu heads for elections in three days, the political battlefield has many small caste-based parties and a BJP determined to make inroads. Perceived as a Brahmin-upper caste party earlier, the BJP is trying to shed the image with outreach to influential OBC groups, and has tied up with several caste-based parties. The ruling DMK, which has a broad-based coalition across caste groups, also has formed alliances with these smaller parties.
WITH ITS mix of prominent castes such as OBC Nadars and Thevars (including Maravars), a substantial presence of SCs/STs, and its large Muslim population, the Tirunelveli Lok Sabha constituency is a testing groundfor the cross-caste consolidation the BJP is building to expand its footprint in Tamil Nadu. What is helping this along in Tirunelveli is the BJP’s choice of candidate, Nainar Nagendran, a popular leader who commands a vote base running across caste and party loyalties.
En route to Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu that accounts for more than half of India’s garments exports, on the Erode-Tiruppur highway, Mohamed Sadiq Khan’s dhaba stands out for its name: Jharkhand-UP Dhaba. He has been here for seven years, and employs four others from his home state Jharkhand.
K Annamalai is nothing if not confident. This may be his first Lok Sabha election, but there are no signs of it as the Tamil Nadu BJP chief campaigns in his Coimbatore constituency, entertaining supporters till late into the night as they wait to give him a rousing welcome.
Before PM Modi found it, the word “guarantee” was associated with MG Ramachandran.
Tamil Nadu will be the first major state to complete polling, with all its 39 Lok Sabha seats voting in the first phase on April 19. In recent weeks, the BJP has led a considerable campaign effort in the state, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting multiple times since the election schedule was announced. Even if the fight remains centred on the DMK and AIADMK, the BJP will look to gain in terms of vote share and pick up some seats.