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Amit Shah & Co approaching various parties for tie-up :Tamil Nadu ,tamil nadu , PMK , DMK , DMDK , BJP , Bharatiya Janata Party, Ramadoss, Vijaykanth,Tamil Nadu Polls 2016,Tamil Nadu assembly election 2016
CHENNAI: BJP leaders in Tamil Nadu had approached PMK and DMDK for a possible pact, but there has been little progress. After playing its best cards to invite regional parties in Tamil Nadu to align with them in vain, the state unit of BJP will now turn mute spectators as the Amit Shah-led national leadership has taken over the process of holding talks with prospective allies in the state ahead of the assembly polls.
LOOKING FOR OPTIONS
State BJP leaders have been approaching various parties including the Ramadoss-led PMK and Vijaykanth-led DMDK for a possible tie-up, but there has been little progress.
PMK's chief ministerial candidate Anbumani Ramadoss has been maintaining that there will be no alliance with the DMK or the AIADMK, but any other party aligning with the PMK should be agreeable to the fact that Anbumani will be the CM candidate.
With a prolonged deadlock between BJP and PMK on the point of chief ministerial candidate, the BJP turned to DMDK. But that didn't go far either. According to sources, DMDK will decide its alliance partner only days after the state-level conference called for by the party on Saturday.
DMDK, PMK LIKELY ALLIES?
BJP sources confirmed DMDK and PMK are the major parties among regional allies being pursued and that their partner in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls - Vaiko's MDMK - has been ruled out after he became a part of a third front, which is popularly known as the People's Welfare Alliance.
CHANGING ALLIANCES
"It is true that the BJP in Tamil Nadu failed to create any mechanism to keep its partners together until the assembly polls," conceded Ganeshan.
He added: "Tamil Nadu's electorate makes a clear distinction between parliamentary and assembly polls. The regional parties know this, and every party has its own interests in ensuring that their party makes the best out of the state elections."
With the BJP's national leadership now involved in negotiations, and setting a deadline of Feb 29 to seal deals, analysts say that the party's approach is likely to be very different from what it was when the state BJP was handling the task.
Indicating that any permutation can unfold, experts say a possible truck with the ruling AIADMK to take on the DMK-Congress combine cannot be ruled out.