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Today, when one Kamalahaasan launches a new political outfit, vowing to cleanse Tamil Nadu polity and political administration of corruption, mal governance and non governance, he is pitted not only against Rajini with his commitment to politics he is also pitted against the real in Tamil Nadu politics, representing the ruling BJP at the Centre, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
IMAGE: Kamalahaasan with DMK supremo M Karunanidhi and his son, cheap Air max shoes M K Stalin, on Sunday. Photograph: Diamond Babu.
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After meeting Kamalahaasan, Rajinikanth told waiting newsmen that like their film career, they would also chart out separate political careers. However, after Kamal meeting with Karunanidhi on Sunday, the latter son and DMK working president M K Stalin indicated that they were keeping their alliance options open.
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Possibly under pressure from the DMK initiative, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has since announced the state government decision to convene an all party meeting on the Cauvery issue, on February 22. If the state government decides on principle only to invite political parties recognised by the Election Commission (which is not a wrong way to proceed in the matter), Kamal yet to be registered party may cheap jordans on sale not find a place. The question is, if the DMK would still have a separate session, if only to honour the invite publicly extended to Kamal, when the latter had not asked for either the meet, or invite.
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Today, when one Kamal launches a new political outfit, vowing to cleanse Tamil Nadu polity and political administration of corruption, mal governance and non governance, he is pitted not only against Rajini with his commitment to politics which is amorphous as spirituality itself can be. He is also pitted against the real in Tamil Nadu politics, representing the ruling BJP at the Centre, which however is seen as slipping up, if not failing as yet, on the corruption grade that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set for himself and his government, especially in the past weeks.
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Yet, over powering political trend, if any, could work for either of them, and that may also be the only way either of them could hope to climb the political/electoral ladder in a short span. For, unless the voting pattern changes, there is only around 10 per cent of the non committed voters in Tamil Nadu who have been willing to with their electoral choices, in election after election, almost since the mid The rest of the non committed vote bank (and it is still there) often goes with the winner (and they have the knack of smelling the victor, thus increasing victory margins than deciding the victor, in a way).
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With or without the DMK as an alliance leader (and not definitely a junior partner under him), Kamal would have to keep looking at his back all the time, as the forces in the state have re launched their religion centric campaigns ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, in recent weeks and months.
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That way, in recent days, BJP Union minister of state Pon Radhakrishnan has been talking freely about multiple militant groups (all of them ideologically disinclined to Hindutva) taking roots in Tamil Nadu, as never before.
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