Updated: December 3, 2020 8:38:03 pm
On Thursday, Rajinikanth announced that it will launch the party in January 2021, and that the date for the party will be announced on December 31.
Tamil actor Rajinikanth announced that he will launch your political party in January 2021, ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls. Although the announcement was expected on Thursday this month, it was speculated that he could cancel his plan due to the pandemic.
Talks about her political entry began in 1996, when she first spoke out against then-Prime Minister J Jayalalithaa, and even later claimed that it was her statement that defeated her at the polls.
However, the first decisive statement about his political attire came more than two decades later, in December 2017. And in March 2020, he said that he will enter politics but will not compete.
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Now that Rajinikanth has finally made it clear and the unassuming actor is highly unlikely to change his mind before December 31, here are the highlights of his political entry.
Rajinikanth’s statements so far about his political entry
Actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth. (File photo)
On Thursday, the actor announced that he will launch the party in January 2021, and that the date for the party will be announced on December 31. He said that he will form an “honest, not corrupt, transparent and secular” party, following a “spiritual policy”, to win the polls. The unpopular word “spiritual” in Tamil Nadu’s dominant Dravidian politics was clarified by the actor in a previous statement: “Honest and free from corruption.”
After tweeting his decision, he met with mediators at his residence and stated that there will be a regime change. He also added: “Everything has a destiny. This choice is to change the destiny of Tamil Nadu. “
“If I win, it will be a victory for the people, and if I fail, that also belongs to them,” he said.
“I will change everything, everything,” he added.
Likely Scenario From May 2021 Polls With Rajinikanth Entry
There were three fronts in the May 2016 polls: AIADMK, DMK and a third front made up of left and Dalit parties. The impact of the third front favored AIADMK to retain power for the second time, as it had helped to divide the votes of the opposition and the strong anti-incumbent wave.
With the political entry of Rajinikanth, once again there is now a third front. And many note that, unlike in 2016, Rajinikanth may be getting more votes from the strongholds of AIADMK and BJP, not from DMK or left-wing minority sections.
The possible alliance equations remain unclear. In 2017, Rajinikanth had said that he would do it alone.
If Rajinikanth’s party is to compete alone, it will most likely repeat Captain Vijayakanth’s political entry into the 2006 elections, in which he garnered just over 8 percent of the vote, even without a single candidate. of his new team, except Vijayakanth himself won the election. 📣 Follow Express explained on Telegram
Unless serious disputes arise over the seat-sharing talks, parties like Vaiko’s CPM, CPI, VCK and MDMK are unlikely to leave the current DMK alliance. When Rajinikanth speaks categorically about regime change, his position against the ruling AIADMK is clear. And many note that Rajinikanth is unlikely to join an unpopular BJP before the election as well. But PMK, another ally of AIADMK and NDA, may join Rajinikanth’s team, as there were talks about it last year. PMK is a party founded by S Ramadoss, known for various anti-Dalit riots in the past and flaunts the vote base of the OBC-Vanniyar community in northern Tamil Nadu.
And other prominent groups remaining scattered outside the two Dravidian alliances are Kamal Haasan’s MNM and TTV Dhinakaran’s AMMK. It is unclear if Rajinikanth would love to establish an alliance with Kamal Haasan. But it is highly unlikely that he will go with the Dhinakaran AMMK, which carries the luggage of the unpopular family of VK Sasikala, Dhinakaran’s aunt.
Possible faces in Rajinikanth’s outfit
His fans, most of them in their 50s and 60s, had been waiting since 1996 for his political entry, and they had to wait three more years even after his first announcement in December 2017. What gives them a fresh spirit now would be nothing less. than hoping to make Rajinikanth the prime minister of Tamil Nadu.
If it was the lack of known and prominent faces that killed the brilliance of Haasan’s political entry in early 2018, Rajinikanth is definitely a much more popular figure in Tamil Nadu.
Still, Rajinikanth does not have a prominent face in his field now, except for some politicians, who are known for their active role in the Rajinikanth fan association, including AIADMK’s Saidai Duraisamy, the former mayor of Chennai City Corporation, and the party. Karate Thiagarajan of Congress.
Regardless of the prominent faces you have in your fold in the coming days, it will also be crucial about Rajinikanth’s candidacy.
In March 2020, he said he will not contest the polls. “If I didn’t have a thirst for power at 45 years (1996), I should be crazy for having the same thing at this age. What I want is a political change, like the one that Anna (the founder of DMK, CN Annadurai) brought to Tamil Nadu (in the 1960s), ”he said.
If he does not participate or does not project himself as the main ministerial candidate, why would his fans, who had been voting for different political parties all these years, support a new political team with unheard of faces?
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