While nationwide and state leaders of the BJP have already began taking part within the celebration’s statewide celebrations of the Tamil competition Pongal, the Congress has additionally introduced that senior chief Rahul Gandhi will attain the state for Pongal celebrations and attend the normal bull-taming sport ‘Jallikattu’ on the well-known Avaniyapuram area close to Madurai on Pongal day on January 14.
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president Ok S Alagiri confirmed Gandhi’s one-day go to to Madurai — reportedly the primary of a number of programmes being deliberate within the state forward of the May 2021 Assembly polls.
A senior Congress chief mentioned there can be yet another occasion in January when Gandhi “may be doing a roadshow in western Tamil Nadu covering regions of Salem, Coimbatore, Tirupur and Karur for three days”.
BJP nationwide president J P Nadda, who earlier had plans to attend the identical Jallikattu occasion in Madurai, can be a part of festivities in Chennai on the identical day.
ExplainedBreak with previous, with eye on pollsThe new-found love of the BJP and Congress for Pongal and Jallikattu is aimed on the upcoming polls and to ship out a message that they endorse Tamil tradition. Both events earlier saved a secure distance from politics surrounding Tamil identification and had hardly made efforts to vary their picture as north Indian events.
While BJP’s celebrations have been named as “Namma Ooru Pongal,” Congress too has named their occasion “Rahul’s Thamizh Vanakkam”.
Contradictions are seen too, forward of polls, when it comes to the strategic method between the nationwide and state models of the 2 events.
A day after C T Ravi, the BJP basic secretary accountable for the state, clarified that the bigger alliance accomplice AIADMK will decide the CM candidate, the celebration’s state chief L Murugan Tuesday mentioned they have been the views of a nationwide chief.
Murugan has repeatedly said that his celebration will determine the CM candidate of the AIADMK-BJP alliance.
In the Congress, remarks in opposition to the rejig within the state unit by Karti Chidambaram, son of senior chief P Chidambaram, raised eyebrows amongst office-bearers of the Tamil Nadu. “These jumbo committees serve no purpose. 32 VP, 57 GS, 104 Secretaries. None will have any authority which means no accountability,” he had tweeted.
An office-bearer mentioned the leaders got new tasks by the excessive command for his or her laborious work and never for being the son of a senior chief.
A senior Congress chief mentioned Karti’s remarks might have been averted at the least throughout election time. “TNCC chief Alagiri was known as a leader closer to Chidambaram than anyone else. But Karti’s statement shows that there may be a communication gap between them now. Alagiri’s recent decisions were mostly in consultation with many more leaders in Delhi. As a state party, we see it as a positive change,” he mentioned.
