Tamil Nadu has been getting occupied by the hotty election clouds amid the monsoon season as the state political parties have been strengthening its strategies in checkmating the rivals towards taking the reign. In what has become the first legislative election since the demise of two political giants Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, the real fight is between the ruling ADMK and the opposition DMK. 

The fight between either side will be powered by the allied parties and besides taking on the rivals, both the ADMK and DMK would meet up the challenges in fixing and announcing the alliance, seat sharing, and the candidates as fixing the coalition would be the difficult task for the parties. Tamil Nadu has been one of the key states in India which has been getting ruled by a single party.  

Amid the alliance, the state had been ruled fully either by the DMK and ADMK parties for the past four decades as the allied parties would only be awarded tickets to contest in the assembly polls based on the seat-sharing and not a place in the cabinet berth or in the ruling mechanism. Unlike some states where the Chief Minister would be from the major party and the Deputy Chief Minister and some of the cabinet ministers from the allied parties, Tamil Nadu had been ruled by the single party, which earns majority in the assembly. 

While it was expected that the state would continue to be ruled by the single party amid the political fight between the ADMK and DMK to take over the power, the BJP has now expressed new confidence to change the status quo in the upcoming assembly polls. BJP has been observing alliance with the ADMK since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and when the ADMK has been facing internal and external challenges, the ruling party has now braced yet another challenge from the BJP.

The challenge was directed by senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan who said that the BJP will be part of the government that comes to power after the 2021 polls. While addressing the reporters in Madurai on Saturday, Radhakrishan said that he is fully confident that the saffron party will be part of the next ruling government in the state, hinting that the ADMK will be winning the election and BJP will share the government with the state ruling party. 

As his remarks about sharing the power had stirred speculations on intra and inter alliance, the ADMK had flayed the remarks of the BJP leader and claimed that the alliance government is not practical in the state. Speaking to a news agency, the ADMK spokesperson has, on Sunday, ruled out the possibilities of the alliance government in the state and said that the Tamil Nadu people had always voted and elected a single party to come to power with the majority. 

By citing that the state was ruled by the single party, be it ADMK, DMK, and Congress, the ADMK spokesperson stated that the alliance government will be unlikely in Tamil Nadu currently and also in the future. According to reports, the BJP has been troubling the ADMK in recent times and Pon Radhakrishnan had earlier claimed that the alliance parties will have to decide on whom should be the CM candidate. 

The BJP leader's remarks on the CM candidate had come hours after Edappadi Palaniswami was named as the CM candidate of the ADMK in the assembly polls. Recently, the Tamil Nadu BJP unit had announced that it would be launching 'Vetrivel Yatra' across Tamil Nadu and the saffron party had released the teaser of the yatra in which it had used the photo of ADMK's Founder MG Ramachandran (MGR). 

After knowing that the BJP had used MGR's picture for its campaign, Tamil Nadu Minister and senior ADMK leader Jayakumar, who is the mouthpiece of the Chief Minister, said that MGR belongs to ADMK and he is the founding leader of the party and he urged the BJP to make use of its own leaders for its campaigns.

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