The performance of the Bharatiya Janata party sterling in the selection of local agencies recently concluded in Tamil Nadu has surprised everyone, including polls analyst, and surprisingly the leadership of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagu in power.
The powerful alliance has won all 21 city companies, with DMK alone to win 17 of them. The alliance also won in most of 138 cities and 489 panceshayats of the city. Obviously, his rival Aiadmk did not imagine victory and deterioration itself.
But the surprise part of this story is the performance of BJP, which has won 22 seats from 1374 company companies, 56 seats from 2,843 city wards and 230 of 7,621 city chairs. It numbered 3 percent of the vote and 308 seats, not the type of victory expected by BJP or its rival. The party finally arrived at Tamil Nadu, which should be the cause of worries for Dravidian forces.
What makes a challenging and interesting contest is the fact that BJP is against the local body selection by itself. It was in talks with AIDMK, coalition partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). After the death of Jayalalithaa, the AIADMK government in the state was run with the help of the BJP government in the middle. But while BJP cannot make an impact on assembly elections, AIADMK loses the country for its rival DMK.
Two partners are not the same, BJP and AIADMK, try our best to present a picture of unity in fighting enemies with their DMK. BJP realized that the prosecutor demanded the same share of seats as Aidmk, who considered BJP as an obligation with ‘North Party, Hindi belt party and a pro-Hindu party. AIADMK might think it would be better to keep BJP as a junior partner just to benefit in several limited constituencies. The worst part of the discussion of the poll alliance was the AIDMK decision not to accommodate BJP’s demands. This is where BJP decided to take the biggest political risk to walk out of the discussion of the poll alliance only four days before the last date of the archiving nomination.
In the next four days BJP managed to involve 5,480 candidates throughout the state and run a fierce campaign in the next 18 days. Stalwarts from national leadership do not campaign, which can be understood because they have a little explanation on the ground or not too enthusiastic about the local body selection in a state where the party is not considered a political force