Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) leader Vijaykant has not made up his mind on having an alliance with any major party for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, despite indications that he may go with the DMK.
“Think cautiously, as we should not sacrifice 2016 for the sake of 2014,” the actor-politician told his partymen at the party’s eighth general council and high-level executive committee meeting on Friday.
The reference was the party’s ambitions for the Assembly elections due in 2016. This was in response to views aired in favour of going in for an alliance for the Lok Sabha polls due next year.
“He is keen on projecting the party as an alternative to both the DMK and AIADMK in the 2016 Assembly elections. He feels if we join hands with Dravidian majors, it will come in the way of realizing our objective. He wants us to strengthen the party organisation.
He reminded us how we were able to emerge the main Opposition from having just a single member in the 2006 elections,” said one of the party MLAs who attended the Friday meeting.
Many general council members and senior leaders had argued that there was a need to retain the momentum gained by the party in the 2011 Assembly election and it could be done so only by winning some seats in the Lok Sabha polls.
“We may not have stakes in the Lok Sabha elections, but we need to constantly prove that we have a winning streak. If we lose the winning streak in the Lok Sabha polls, it may have an adverse effect,” said another senior MLA, arguing that the party could prepare itself aggressively for the Assembly elections immediately after the Lok Sabha polls.
“But Mr Vijayakant wants to move in a calculated manner. He said we would cross the bridge when we come to it,” the MLA said.
The MLA said Mr Vijayakant was initially not interested in going with the AIADMK even in the 2011 Assembly elections. “But a vicious campaign unleashed in the run-up to the polls that we will stand alone just to help the DMK, provoked him and he agreed to join the AIADMK alliance,” he said.
Vijayakant has not proved anything in the previous election itself which
was the strongest period for him. Now it is too late to build castles in
the air.
The faith in Vijayakant and party has tremendously gone down.
Its time Vijayakant comes out of Politics a clean man. This is my
sincere advice.
Every political leader in Tamil Nadu knows that aligning with the DMK
will certainly not be the road to development of his own party. The
most striking example of this is the great Congress party which has
been reduced to a mere 'also ran' by the DMK as a result of the decade
old alliance. The recent experiences in the Assembly and Municipal
polls should have only reinforced this lesson in the DMDK. No matter
how many seats are won immediately, going it alone is the only way for
a party to strengthen itself in the long run, be it the Congress or
the DMDK; the former has much to regain as it was all needlessly
thrown away for very dubious gains.
DMDK can never become a ruling party in the state on its one. So Mr. Vijayakanth will have to gain few seats in 2014 - Lok Sabah- and few Assembly seats in 2016 from by entering into an alliance either with the DMK or with AIDMK or with the Congress or in multiple combinations. Depending upon the alliance his party strength would increase or decrease. The second option. He can plan to have an alliance with PMK, MDMK, and the Congress, the Communists, religious parties and caste groups. A Himalayan task! All will not agree for his leadership. The second option, if it happens, there is a chance of his alliance coming very close to the power. But even then he may need few seats either from DMK or from the AIADMK. So in TN he becoming the CM is very unlikely. Better some seeds are shown in the good company of others and get little harvest to sustain the Party.
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