CHENNAI: Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami he may have ably handled the internal revolt by his deputy and AIADMK coordinator, O Panmeerselvam, and got himself appointed CM candidate. With the mandate of his party, Palaniswami has launched a campaign in the western districts and the Cauvery delta region. But EPS has a more difficult task at hand to maneuver the difficult stance of his potential allies, especially the BJP and the PMK, who continue to postpone accepting it as CM candidate of the alliance. It has to address the aspirations to share power and the demand for more seats from allies, including the DMDK, to set up the house in order to take on the formidable alliance of DMK.
Leader after leader in the BJP have maintained that the NDA will decide and appoint the main ministerial candidate, although the party Tamil nadu CT Ravi in charge had admitted that the prime minister will belong to the largest party in the alliance and that is the AIADMK. The saffron party, doing its best to open roads in Tamil Nadu and send elected representatives to the state assembly, has maintained its position on shared power. This, despite the actor RajinikanthThe decision not to launch their own party and enter electoral politics by limiting their navigability in front of the alliance.
The PMK has also been playing hardball. “We do not have an elected deputy or an MLA. If we can’t even have 25 MLAs, what is the purpose of having a party for over 30 years? “PMK founder S Ramadoss lamented at the party’s general council on Thursday.
“It is a calculated move by the BJP not to recognize EPS as CM’s candidate and to maintain it as an NDA-led alliance, with strong hopes of sharing power if the alliance is victorious. Unlike Jayalalithaa or Karunanidhi, who were automatic CM candidates from their respective alliances, parties like the PMK may not like AIADMK’s unilateral decision and are therefore taking a tough stance, ”said M Kasinathan, Political analyst.
But AIADMK media coordinator and former Rajya Sabha MP AW Rabi Bernard calls AIADMK’s decision to nominate its CM candidate and launch the campaign as an exercise in “marketing” and “branding.” “It is the AIADMK, with its established vote bank, that will lead the alliance with all the other parties in the alliance, coming in a distant second place with their respective share of votes. While the alliance partners have their own formalities to announce it formally, our prime minister is well equipped to handle such negotiations, ”he said.
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