New Delhi: The 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections has introduced an finish to a 15year (three election) streak, throughout which the Bharatiya Janata Party didn’t win a single Assembly constituency in the state.
The BJP didn’t contest by itself and it did in order part of the AIADMK-led NDA, however the reality stays that the saffron occasion’s candidates received by contesting on their Lotus image.
Having grown from nil seats in 2016 to 4 in 2021 is a major leap for the saffron occasion. It should even be remembered that the BJP State President got here a detailed second in Dharapuram, lacking out by just a little over 1300 votes.
C.Saraswathi from Modakurichi, M.R.Gandhi from Nagercoil, Vanathi Srinivasan from Coimbatore South and Nainar Nagendran from Tirunelveli are the 4 lawmakers who will likely be representing the BJP in the State Assembly.
Prior to this, it was in 1996 that the BJP had one legislator in the Tamil Nadu meeting, adopted by 2001, once they had 4 legislators.
Following their victory, Tamil Nadu BJP President L. Murugan reminisced how he had vowed to make the Lotus bloom in Tamil Nadu, when he had taken over because the occasion’s State president in early 2020. “BJP legislators will be standing tall in the midst of detractors who kept saying that the Lotus will not bloom in Tamil Nadu” he recalled his 2020 vow, saying that it has been fulfilled.
Notably, BJP’s National Women’s Wing President Vanathi Srinivasan secured her victory in opposition to actor Kamal Haasan who made his debut in the Assembly polls, after launching his occasion Makkal Needhi Maiam, three yr in the past.
Haasan was the principle ray of hope for the fledgling occasion, because the MNM had solely been displaying promise in his constituency throughout the counting. However, by round 10pm on Sunday night time, their hopes had been dashed by BJP’s candidate.
In the 2016 Assembly polls, the BJP had contested by itself in opposition to the DMK and AIADMK, however failed to safe even a single seat, whereas Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK defeated M. Karunanidhi’s DMK and broke a 30-year outdated document to storm again to energy for a second consecutive time period.
