Regional pride, alliances, secularism: Has DMK found a formula to counter BJP?
The outcome of the election could provide an indication.
Kartik Kakar
Could the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagamâs template of bringing together myriad opposition parties and creating a grassroots mechanism to constantly organise demonstrations against the Narendra Modi governmentâs policies be a solution to break the BJPâs political and electoral dominance?
The outcome of the election in Tamil Nadu could provide an indication.
After the 2014 general election, when it contested in alliance with a few small parties and drew a blank, the DMK started working hard on uniting several parties around a common agenda of secularism and opposing the BJPâs social, economic, industrial, and language policies, as also its communalism. In 2016, it brought onboard the Congress and a few minor parties, but lost the assembly election narrowly