From the margins to momentum: BJP’s journey in Tamil Nadu


The rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the confusions throughout the AIADMK, together with the sustained efforts of current BJP State presidents Tamilisai Soundararajan, L. Murugan, and K. Annamalai, helped BJP acquire energy. File | Picture Credit score: The Hindu

The BJP has struggled to ascertain a foothold by itself in Tamil Nadu, the place politics has been dominated by the Dravidian majors for greater than 5 many years, however the occasion has gained momentum within the State in recent times.

The BJP was lengthy considered as a “North Indian” occasion, with the Dravidian majors, significantly the DMK, fastidiously setting up a story portraying the BJP as a political outsider within the State.