Chennai: The DMK president, MK Stalin, has built up a strong narrative over the years against the governments hosted by AIADMK and BJP in Tamil Nadu and the center, and he recreated the magic of 2019 when he unleashed the Lok Sabha polls won for his party and allies.
The DMK has won 127 seats and is likely to win six seats from where it leads. When the segments that include DMK’s partners, including Congress, were added, it worked out 153 seats out of a total of 234.
The 68-year-old Stalin, who won two-thirds of the 234 seats through his continued campaign, once again ushered in a victory like that of the 2019 parliamentary elections.
However, the victory did not end up in Stalin’s lap and he worked on it by systematically reaching out to people by directing the center and state governments on many issues.
Whether it is the National Education Policy, the Citizenship Amendment Act, farm laws or votes to bring education back to the state list of the Constitution, he said the BJP-led center is ‘anti-people’.
Stalin’s account was that the BJP government had trampled on the rights of states and was against Tamil culture and imposed Hindi and Sanskrit, and by being ‘submissive’ to such a regime, the AIADMK was also against people sharing of his narration was.
He also revealed that the center betrayed Sri Lankan Tamils by not voting against the island nation at a recent UN meeting, which was added to the ever-growing list.
At the same time, Stalin has seen the AIADMK experience the heat on many issues, including a string of accusations against Prime Minister K Palaniswami, his cabinet colleagues, the NEET issue and the anti-sterlite protests against the Tuticorin police firing. episode in 2018 and many more.
Stalin claims the AIADMK betrayed Tamil Nadu’s interests by being ‘serviceable’ to the center, and the AIIMS hospital in Madurai is an example.
The DMK chief claimed that Palaniswami had ensured that hydrocarbon exploration projects would not be allowed, but that they would continue in the state. He often claims that the AIADMK regime exists only for ‘corruption, collection and commissioning’.
He accused Palaniswami of being a false farmer, saying that the state plan to rejuvenate water bodies only for ‘looting money’ by filing ‘false accounts’. Farmers do not have their pending fees, cyclone relief, and there was ‘corruption’ even in the acquisition of paddy.
Stalin was at the forefront of protests against hydrocarbon exploration projects in the districts of the Cauvery district, set up the whole country against the farm laws, CAA, and collected ‘two points’ against it.
Last October, a big rally was held here near Raj Bhavan, where Governor Banwarilal Purohit voted in favor of a state bill that reserved 7.5 percent to students of government schools in medical admissions.
Although the quota was an initiative of the AIADMK regime, the DMC said it only became law after its protest and pressure on the governor.
The DMC’s election campaign was also well planned well in advance and a few months before the elections begin.
The ‘Vidiyalai Nokki Stalinin Kural’ (Stalin’s Voice at Dawn) campaign, launched in November last year, was soon followed by Stalin launching the ‘We Reject AIADMK’ campaign with a 200-seat mission in the to win election.
With ‘Stalin than vararu vidiyal thara poraru’ (Stalin is going to seize power / become prime minister and usher in a dawn) signs are popping up everywhere, a song with the same words also deepened party gatherings.
When the AIADMK declared that it was joining hands with BJP for the polls, Stalin tactfully painted the Dravidian rival with the same common brush and often said: “not even an AIADMK candidate should win, and that is because, if the AIADMK- nominee wins or she would just be a BJP MLA. ‘
The DMC campaign was therefore to a significant extent against the BJP, but was also apparently aimed at damaging the election prospects of the AIADMK combination as a whole.
Another important, state-wide campaign was ‘Ungal Thoguthiyill Stalin’ (Stalin in your constituency), an unconventional gathering in which Stalin heard people’s grievances, received petitions and put them in a box and locked them up, promising to get everyone within 100 days after acceptance. force.
Apart from large gatherings such as the Tiruchirappalli gathering, when Stalin unveiled a ten-year vision document, his ‘seven promises’ and financial aid of Rs 1,000 a month to all family heads, the party held countless polling meetings with Stalin’s son and youth wing held. president Udhayanidhi and secretary of the women’s wing Kanimozhi take the lead.
The promise in the poll, including Rs 1000 aid, was emphasized and it ensured that measures, including the dedication of temples, at a cost of Rs 000, apparently blunted the criticism that it was ‘anti-Hindu’.
The much-publicized ‘Ondrinaivom Vaa’ (which meant we had to take part in fighting COVID-19An ’emergency relief initiative’ launched during the first wave last year also caught people’s attention.
The party, along with the ‘Ellorum Nammudan’ (all with us) has a mega-membership and several other local, regional-level initiatives, made a concerted effort to reach more and more people outside of its dedicated electorate.
At the local level, DMK’s specific issues were selected to better communicate with the local population. Stalin, for example, devoted time to directing the government to the ‘failure’ of the Nandan Canal scheme in Villupuram district and to bringing surplus water to Thumbalahalli dam in Dharmapuri district.
An intense digital campaign on social media focusing on Stalin’s seven promises and ‘difficulties’ of the Palaniswami government added weight to the party’s election.
In the LS polls, the DMK and its allies won as many as 38 out of a total of 39 seats and the DMK chief continued the winning streak when his party emerged with a distinctive lead over the AIADMK by the end of 2019. .
The DMK’s 133 seats – including won and leading – contain constituencies of allies such as MDMK who fought on the ‘Rising Sun’ symbol of the Stalin-led party. The DMK’s allies, Congress won 18, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi four and the two left parties each two seats.
Although the DMC was unable to seize power in 2016, Stalin continued to continue the fight against the AIADMK, both in the State Assembly and outside, and has held a series of protest marches over the years.
At the same time, his position in the party was further strengthened when he became the acting president in early 2017 and its president the following year after the death of his father and party patriarch M Karunanidhi.
Source: Telangana Today