Barring the very few in their late seventies, most Tamil voters wouldn't remember him. After the debacle in the 1967 Assembly polls where he himselflost, the Tamil Nadu Congress hasn't seen a matching vote catcher so far.
Since then, the state has been exercising its choice between the Dravidian parties or their alliances.Also every time, even in the heydays of Indira Gandhi, the campaign for even the Lok Sabha polls has been led by a regional satrap - CN Annadurai, M Karunanidhi, MG Ramachandran, J Jayalalithaa, and now MK Stalin. Would this pattern get disrupted?
This time, there is a second national party in the picture and it is going for broke. With no significant regional alliance to speak of, the BJP is projecting a new solo flier as leader, KAnnamalai, its state unit president. Just into his fourth year in politics, having joined the BJP in 2020 after quitting the IPS, he has no political baggage - a big plus in a state that has seen far too many shifty moves after Jayalalitha's death in 2016.
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