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CHENNAI/HYDERABAD: In a span of two months, leaders of varied political events descended south to affix two anti-BJP gatherings with a watch on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, though the central characters differed quite a bit.
While Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao has made his nationwide ambitions amply clear, even rechristening his get together to help the method, his Tamil Nadu counterpart M Ok Stalin insists he’s already on the nationwide scene and used his birthday rally on March 1 to not solely strongly pitch for the Congress as a pressure to reckon with within the efforts to dislodge the Narendra Modi-led dispensation on the Centre but additionally sought to shoot down the prospects of a Third Front.
Rao and Stalin have proved to be regional satraps who can tackle the would possibly of the BJP and each had been seen within the firm of prime nationwide leaders lately.
If the January 18 assembly convened by Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), the erstwhile Telangana Rashtra Samiti, in Khammam noticed a clarion name for a regime change in New Delhi subsequent yr, the Chennai rally organised to mark Stalin’s seventieth birthday, harped on opposition unity.
(From L to R) Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao, CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, CPI Gen Secy D Raja and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Party’s public assembly, in Khammam, Jan.18, 2023. (ANI Photo)
While the BRS-led assembly stood decided on the necessity for a change of presidency on the Centre, the audio system on the Chennai occasion underlined the widespread connection of a socialist imaginative and prescient that binds them collectively whereas leaders together with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah batted for Stalin to take up an even bigger nationwide function.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned his get together and the DMK shared a standard social imaginative and prescient. It is anyone’s guess that the events have set their eyes on making a wealthy harvest of the 40 parliamentary seats up for grabs in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Incidentally, in 2004, below then DMK chief, the late M Karunanidhi’s management, the alliance gained all 40, giving UPA-I the much-needed numbers to type a authorities below Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
DMK President and TN CM MK Stalin with opposition leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Farooq Abdullah, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav and DMK senior leaders at a public assembly in Chennai, March 1, 2023. (Photo | PTI)
Political analyst Ramu Suravajjula mentioned the assembly organised in January by KCR, as Rao is popularly identified, at Khammam was seen because the Telangana Chief Minister’s mega present of energy projecting his nationwide ambitions. However, his political dilemma was on show on the public assembly, Suravajjula opined.
KCR neither spelt out the BRS agenda nor did he go away a touch about his political mates on the nationwide stage. The visiting leaders, which included Chief Ministers of Kerala and Delhi, Pinarayi Vijayan and Arvind Kejriwal, respectively, moreover CPI prime chief D Raja, additionally didn’t declare KCR as their chief, he mentioned.
An observer of Tamil Nadu politics mentioned a Third Front might not have its desired affect and identified the bold ‘Makkal Nala Kootani’ (People’s Welfare Front), headed by actor-politician Vijayakant’s DMDK, coming a cropper within the 2016 Assembly polls in that state, even because the AIADMK secured a uncommon successive time period in a detailed combat involving the DMK.
The DMDK-led alliance included MDMK and the 2 Left events, who at the moment are a part of the DMK-led bloc.
Suravajjula mentioned, Stalin, throughout his birthday celebrations in Chennai, displayed political pragmatism. KCR obtained alienated in his combat towards the BJP with Kharge and Stalin sending out a message loud and clear that no coalition meant to successfully tackle the BJP can succeed with out the Congress, he mentioned.
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Some insist that the Rao-led assembly largely spoke about dethroning the BJP-led Central authorities whereas the contributors of the Chennai gathering made a acutely aware push to model the bloc as pro-social justice and ideologically oriented.
Chennai-based political observer Sathyalaya Ramakrishnan mentioned each groupings needed to see the again of Modi in 2024 however had been confused about who ought to lead. “There is a lot of confusion among the opposition parties on who should lead an alliance. These kinds of confusions and non-cooperation will lead Modi to form his own government for the third time next year,” he mentioned.
Ramakrishnan indicated that even after the Khammam assembly, nationwide leaders didn’t present curiosity in projecting KCR as a PM candidate, however that Abdullah had even supported the “Stalin for PM” slogan emanating primarily from Tamil Nadu and the DMK chief’s supporters.
Another political analyst Telakapalli Ravi mentioned Congress was the foremost distinction between the 2 conferences. While the grand outdated get together is a rival of the BRS in Telangana, Stalin gave a decent place to Congress by inviting it to his birthday celebrations in Chennai, he mentioned.
CHENNAI/HYDERABAD: In a span of two months, leaders of varied political events descended south to affix two anti-BJP gatherings with a watch on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, though the central characters differed quite a bit.
While Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao has made his nationwide ambitions amply clear, even rechristening his get together to help the method, his Tamil Nadu counterpart M Ok Stalin insists he’s already on the nationwide scene and used his birthday rally on March 1 to not solely strongly pitch for the Congress as a pressure to reckon with within the efforts to dislodge the Narendra Modi-led dispensation on the Centre but additionally sought to shoot down the prospects of a Third Front.
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If the January 18 assembly convened by Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), the erstwhile Telangana Rashtra Samiti, in Khammam noticed a clarion name for a regime change in New Delhi subsequent yr, the Chennai rally organised to mark Stalin’s seventieth birthday, harped on opposition unity.
(From L to R) Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao, CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, CPI Gen Secy D Raja and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Party’s public assembly, in Khammam, Jan.18, 2023. (ANI Photo)
While the BRS-led assembly stood decided on the necessity for a change of presidency on the Centre, the audio system on the Chennai occasion underlined the widespread connection of a socialist imaginative and prescient that binds them collectively whereas leaders together with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah batted for Stalin to take up an even bigger nationwide function.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned his get together and the DMK shared a standard social imaginative and prescient. It is anyone’s guess that the events have set their eyes on making a wealthy harvest of the 40 parliamentary seats up for grabs in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Incidentally, in 2004, below then DMK chief, the late M Karunanidhi’s management, the alliance gained all 40, giving UPA-I the much-needed numbers to type a authorities below Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
DMK President and TN CM MK Stalin with opposition leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Farooq Abdullah, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav and DMK senior leaders at a public assembly in Chennai, March 1, 2023. (Photo | PTI)
Political analyst Ramu Suravajjula mentioned the assembly organised in January by KCR, as Rao is popularly identified, at Khammam was seen because the Telangana Chief Minister’s mega present of energy projecting his nationwide ambitions. However, his political dilemma was on show on the public assembly, Suravajjula opined.
KCR neither spelt out the BRS agenda nor did he go away a touch about his political mates on the nationwide stage. The visiting leaders, which included Chief Ministers of Kerala and Delhi, Pinarayi Vijayan and Arvind Kejriwal, respectively, moreover CPI prime chief D Raja, additionally didn’t declare KCR as their chief, he mentioned.
An observer of Tamil Nadu politics mentioned a Third Front might not have its desired affect and identified the bold ‘Makkal Nala Kootani’ (People’s Welfare Front), headed by actor-politician Vijayakant’s DMDK, coming a cropper within the 2016 Assembly polls in that state, even because the AIADMK secured a uncommon successive time period in a detailed combat involving the DMK.
The DMDK-led alliance included MDMK and the 2 Left events, who at the moment are a part of the DMK-led bloc.
Suravajjula mentioned, Stalin, throughout his birthday celebrations in Chennai, displayed political pragmatism. KCR obtained alienated in his combat towards the BJP with Kharge and Stalin sending out a message loud and clear that no coalition meant to successfully tackle the BJP can succeed with out the Congress, he mentioned.
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Some insist that the Rao-led assembly largely spoke about dethroning the BJP-led Central authorities whereas the contributors of the Chennai gathering made a acutely aware push to model the bloc as pro-social justice and ideologically oriented.
Chennai-based political observer Sathyalaya Ramakrishnan mentioned each groupings needed to see the again of Modi in 2024 however had been confused about who ought to lead. “There is a lot of confusion among the opposition parties on who should lead an alliance. These kinds of confusions and non-cooperation will lead Modi to form his own government for the third time next year,” he mentioned.
Ramakrishnan indicated that even after the Khammam assembly, nationwide leaders didn’t present curiosity in projecting KCR as a PM candidate, however that Abdullah had even supported the “Stalin for PM” slogan emanating primarily from Tamil Nadu and the DMK chief’s supporters.
Another political analyst Telakapalli Ravi mentioned Congress was the foremost distinction between the 2 conferences. While the grand outdated get together is a rival of the BRS in Telangana, Stalin gave a decent place to Congress by inviting it to his birthday celebrations in Chennai, he mentioned.
