Ahead of meeting polls: Amit Shahs Mission Tamil Nadu

Amit Shah’s assault towards the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its management conveys the same disdain and antipathy that BJP holds towards Mamta Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. He has gone on file stating that each TMC in West Bengal and DMK in Tamil Nadu can be defeated within the subsequent meeting elections. Amit Shah additionally reiterated with the identical depth that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by BJP will type the subsequent authorities in Tamil Nadu. Though the bottom realities in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are vastly completely different, the BJP’s aggressive strategy to the Tamil Nadu meeting elections 2026 can’t be neglected. There are inter-party conflicts and intra-party points throughout the NDA alliance consisting of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Desia Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Puthiya Tamizhagam (PT) and the BJP itself.

There are core considerations concerning the electoral ties between the BJP and AIADMK over crucial problems with alliance management and the AIADMK factional politics stirred and preserved by the BJP. There are hurdles and uncertainties that can not be pushed apart with Edappadi Palanisamy remaining unmoved over the position, management and seat share throughout the NDA alliance. And his lack of enthusiasm for the reconciliation with O Paneerselvam, Sasiskala and TD Dinakaran is a matter of pragmatic problem of electoral coordination. BJP’s main problem in Tamil Nadu is just not how one can run its personal social gathering however how one can management and affect the AIADMK management in addition to handle the contradictions of the factional politics. The household feud throughout the PMK reflecting the father-son duel and the rupture within the ties between AIADMK and DMDK aren’t beneficial situations for the NDA alliance in Tamil Nadu.

Then why does Amit Shah discuss aggressive concerning the change of regime in Tamil Nadu? All mentioned and finished concerning the shortcomings within the BJP-AIADMK alliance, BJP has been creating a parallel technique of difficult the DMK with or with out an alliance with the AIADMK. BJP has additionally been specializing in strengthening the organsiational equipment in Tamil Nadu. Amit Shah’s assembly with the social gathering workplace bearers from the state, district and mandal ranges is reaffirming this goal. First, that is the actual that means of “Mission Tamil Nadu” by overtaking the AIADMK not solely as an alternative choice to the DMK however to redefine the electoral recreation in Tamil Nadu past the main Dravidian events and their allies. Edappadi Palanisamy understands this ploy greater than others however is helpless together with his personal social gathering and flanks damaged. Secondly, the BJP is just not hesitant to make use of and apply the spiritual card to sway the voters just like the Lord Murugan Devotees Conference scheduled subsequent week this month. The Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple turning into a runway for the political marketing campaign within the forthcoming meeting elections in 2026 is a component of a bigger design to attract the Hindu votes and unfold a north centric political narrative in Tamil Nadu politics. This can be one other model of BJP’s rising involvement in Durga Puja competition in West Bengal with a purpose to determine and broaden the socio-cultural foundation for the social gathering in West Bengal.

BJP is eager to strengthen its presence and construct stakes in Tamil Nadu politics primarily based on the power of its energy on the Centre and the problem of the ultimate frontier to increase Hindutva politics. The social gathering is extra assured after its success in Odisha and Delhi and needs to push itself towards the DMK with a perception that DMK is now not invincible with an aggression matching its strategies in West Bengal. There is a have to pause and mirror on the prospects and limitations of this aggressive posture and technique in Tamil Nadu politics. The socio-political and historic roots of communal polarisation in West Bengal are vastly completely different from Tamil Nadu and the BJP’s technique to mobilise voters on spiritual playing cards will not be profitable.

There are vital points just like the language query, challenges of delimitation, the position and functioning of NITI Aayog (National Institute for Transforming India) and the Centre-state relations wants extra consideration and understanding to enter the electoral battle of 2026.

(Prof.Ramu Manivannan is a scholar-social activist in areas of training, human rights and sustainable improvement by an initiative “Multiversity.”)