Chennai: With all alliances in place for the Assembly elections on May 16, Tamil Nadu is set to witness a blitzkrieg of high-voltage campaigning involving not just the state leaders but also the stars from the north, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, besides her lieutenant-son Rahul Gandhi.
The BJP’s top netas are expected to fly into the Dravidian state soon after party president Amit Shah addresses a poll rally at Tiruchy on April 13. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in Tamil Nadu early next month”, BJP state president Dr Tamilisai Sounderarajan told reporters on Monday. She refused to give out details, obviously because she herself did not get the confirmed dates from the PMO.
The AICC headquarters on Akbar road in New Delhi is also busy drawing up the campaign schedules of its top leaders. Party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi will share the dais with the DMK chief M Karunanidhi, according to TNCC president EVKS Elangovan. That could, perhaps, be the first time that Rahul would be meeting the grand old Dravidian on a public platform.
With the elections completed in Assam and West Bengal, the BJP and the Congress leaders in the national capital are planning their campaign trips down south in such a manner that they could club the halts in TN and Puducherry with those in neighbouring Kerala — all three go to polls on May 16.
