Chennai: The Tamil Maanila Congress has formally joined the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) months forward of the overall elections.
Get together chief GK Vasan on Monday stated the nation’s financial progress and safety are the necessity of the hour, which led to the choice.
The occasion’s alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) comes at a time when the AIADMK has severed ties with the Narendra Modi-led occasion and squandered the probabilities of such an alliance sooner or later.
Addressing a press meet on the occasion headquarters on Monday, Vasan stated: “Contemplating the welfare of the folks and our occasion and assessing which occasion would handle the welfare of our state and the Tamils internationally, now we have taken this choice.”
Vasan additionally stated he would attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public assembly at Palladam in Tirupur district on February 27.
Vasan is the son of occasion founder GK Moopanar, who made headlines along with his refusal to assist the BJP throughout a confidence vote within the Lok Sabha in 1999, which led to the autumn of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led authorities for need of 1 vote.
After Vasan’s announcement, BJP met Tamil Nadu chief Ok. Annamalai Vasan.
“I thank Tamil Maanila Congress and GK Vasan for extending its assist to NDA and Prime Minister Modi. The Tamil Maanila Congress was at all times a distinct political occasion, a regional occasion with nationalism at its core… GK Vasan at present gave the folks of Tamil Nadu confidence that he envisions a future the place extra MPs from Tamil Nadu shall be a part of the NDA ,’ Annamalai later advised the press.
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Tamil Maanila Congress: Journey up to now
Former MP GK Moopanar based the Tamil Manila Congress in 1996 as a breakaway faction of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.
The cut up got here after the then Congress excessive command determined to proceed the alliance with the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK for the 1996 Lok Sabha polls regardless of variations.
In her first time period As Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996, Jayalalithaa and her authorities confronted a number of allegations of corruption. That had soured the connection between her and the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.
Moopanar, an in depth aide of Congress chief and former Tamil Nadu CM Ok. Kamaraj, joined arms with the DMK for the 1996 state meeting and Lok Sabha polls. The Tamil Maanila Congress, as a part of the alliance, loved nice success. It received 39 of the 40 seats it contested within the state Meeting polls and all 20 seats it contested within the Lok Sabha polls.
Moopanar’s refusal to assist the BJP within the 1999 belief vote regardless of strain from the DMK led to the collapse of the then Vajpayee-led authorities. Moopanar reportedly stated on the time that he was dedicated to secularism and would by no means assist the BJP.
After Moopanar died in 2001, the occasion unanimously elected Vasan as president. The Vasan-led Tamil Maanila Congress merged with the Congress in 2002. However the merger solely lasted till 2014.
Earlier than the 2016 parliamentary elections, Vasan, in a bid to reform the occasion, joined the Individuals’s Welfare Entrance (PWF) alliance, which included events like Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK). ) and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Get together of India (CPI) and Communist Get together of India (Marxist) (CPI-(M)). It failed miserably within the 2016 state meeting polls.
In 2019, the Tamil Maanila Congress joined arms with the AIADMK, which was then a part of the NDA alliance. Nevertheless it misplaced the one seat it contested within the Lok Sabha polls.
In 2020, the AIADMK nominated Vasan to the Rajya Sabha and he was reportedly elected to the Higher Home with the assist of the BJP.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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