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Tamil Nadu
By Suresh Nambath
The CPI national secretary, D. Raja, in an interview, insisted that the Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary, Jayalalithaa, was trying to `Modi'fy Tamil Nadu in the manner of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, by polarising the society along communal lines. All actions of the AIADMK Government, including the introduction of the anti-conversion law, were meant to isolate minorities and make them the object of hate. Ms. Jayalalithaa was in an alliance with the Kanchi Sankaracharya, who was involving himself in street politics. Along with the Hindu religious head, the Government was pursuing the majoritarian agenda, he said. However, the CPI was unwilling to prefer the DMK to the AIADMK at a time when the DMK was still in the BJP-led NDA. Although the DMK was opposing the majoritarian agenda of the AIADMK, it continued its alliance with the BJP at the national level. "There cannot be half-way measures. The DMK must make its stand clear on the alliance with the BJP," Mr. Raja said. All the Dravidian outfits were moving away from their moorings. While the DMK was in the same Government as the BJP, the AIADMK was pursuing its own Hindutva agenda, and moving closer to the BJP. The Dravidar Kazhagam, while opposing the BJP, supported the AIADMK. Its general secretary, K. Veeramani, did nothing more than issue statements against pro-Hindutva measures of the AIADMK. "This shows him as a mere opportunist. He makes statements for the records of history. He does not fight for justice." The CPI is coordinating with the CPI(M) and the Congress in fighting the AIADMK at the State level and the BJP at the national level, he added. Meanwhile, the AIADMK, which had mooted a Left parties inclusive third front at the national level as an alternative to the Congress and the BJP, has now begun to attack the Left parties in public fora. Once it became clear that the Left parties would not buy Ms. Jayalalithaa's third front proposal, and that they were attacking the AIADMK for its Hindutva agenda, the AIADMK party organ started a campaign against the Left Front Government in West Bengal and belittled its achievements. With the Congress and the Left parties, along with the Indian National League, having already moved away from the AIADMK, and the Dalit parties — the Puthiya Tamilagam and the Dalit Panthers of India — not in any mood to patch up with the party, Ms. Jayalalithaa seems to be running out of possible allies. Although the principal rival of the DPI, the PMK, is in the DMK camp, the party did not see any need to move towards the AIADMK camp. Instead, it is now in the forefront of the anti-AIADMK campaign.
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