A number of Tamil Nadu politicians, including 15 former MLAs and one ex-MP, joined the BJP here on Wednesday as the governing party seeks to bolster its position in the southern state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
The majority of these leaders are from the AIADMK, a previous BJP ally in the state, and they joined in the presence of Union Ministers Rajeev Chandrasekhar and L Murugan, as well as state BJP President K Annamalai.
Annamalai welcomed them, saying they offer a lot of expertise to the BJP and wish to strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hands as he returns to power for a third straight term.
They have been seeing the happenings in Tamil Nadu, he said in an apparent swipe at the state’s ruling DMK and its main rival AIADMK.
“Tamil Nadu is going the Bharatiya Janata Party way,” claimed the young leader whose strong position on his party’s ideological stand in the Dravidian state and sharp criticism of the entrenched parties has won him his share of admirers and detractors.
According to Chandrasekhar, Modi’s large-scale participation demonstrates his popularity in a state like Tamil Nadu, where the BJP has historically been weakened.
Noting that PM Modi predicts the BJP will win 370 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha and the NDA would win over 400, he stated that many of these additional seats will come from Tamil Nadu.
“It is clear that every citizen of India wants the transformation of the last 10 years to continue,” he added.
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Source: NDTV
