Chennai: After the initial suspense, the BJP has said that the party would not name its chief ministerial candidate for the May Assembly elections. However, it was keeping all options open including considering supporting DMDK chief Vijayakanth, if the proposal comes from the actor-politician or decide its CM candidate.
“From our side another positive thing is that we have never declared a CM candidate and so it is not an impediment. Anything may happen. We are considering making a decision on CM after the elections. But we are willing to consider, if a proposal comes from Vijayakanth,” BJP’s national general secretary P. Muralidhar Rao said on Wednesday evening.
Speaking to reporters here he referred to a clarification issued by Vijayakanth’s wife Premalatha that like-minded parties (opposed to both ruling AIADMK and DMK) were welcome to hold talks with her party president, and said, “we are holding dialogue with Vijayakanth as their objective and ours for 2016 election is the same which is fighting both the AIADMK and DMK.”
Nevertheless, the BJP is preparing to contest from all the 234 constituencies. Reiterating that his party would not have any electoral tie-up with either the AIADMK or DMK, he said Tamil Nadu was “adversely affected and became a causality to bad governance and corruption.”
“The rich will not suffer due to corruption, which always affect the poor people. And the corruption cousins – the DMK and its ally the Congress could not hope to benefit by votes exercised against these two parties.”
