Chennai: With Assam and West Bengal going to the polls, the focus of the BJP leaders will shift to Tamil Nadu. Following the party’s national chief Amit Shah’s Tiruchy visit on April 13, a high profile contingent of party leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will hit the campaign trail in the state.
Though the schedule of the leaders is under preparation, Union ministers: Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani and M. Venkaiah Naidu, besides party’s MP Hema Malini would be touring the state individually and garner votes for the party’s candidates and those of their allies.
Shah, who will address a huge rally in Tiruchy, would introduce the party candidates. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Tamil Nadu early next month for campaigning,” BJP state president Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan said on Monday without divulging further details on the PM’s visit.
It has been planned to work out a schedule for about 20 national leaders of the party to undertake the campaign for the May 16 Assembly elections. Their tour programme would be clubbed with their campaign schedule in the neighbouring poll bound Kerala.
“I strongly believe that Vijayakanth’s DMDK lost its significance after it decided to align with PWA. When such is the case, the rebel group will hardly make an impact,” she said when sought for her reaction to the newly floated Makkal DMDK.
The DMK’s manifesto, Tamilisai said, would not be taken seriously by the electorate who had given that party opportunities in the past to rule the State.
“The DMK had failed to deliver and hence the electorate will not take their poll promises seriously this time,” she added.
