In the midst of having faltering grounds in the state, the Tamil Nadu BJP unit has been chalking out a big plan to mitigate the party from conceding the drastic defeat in the upcoming state legislative polls. The Central ruling party has been finding it difficult to establish a safe and stable stronghold in Tamil Nadu, but for this time, the state BJP has been mulling to have a big and benign victory in the assembly polls. 

In past, the BJP has a history of series of debacles and defeats in the state, which has been filled with the stronghold of the Dravidian parties. In the albeit of observing alliance with the state ruling ADMK, the BJP was pushed to brace up the unprecedented defeats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in the state as BJP had lost all the seats it had contested while ADMK had managed to win one parliamentary constituency. With the huge challenge to fish the state into its boat with the perfect bait, the BJP has been preparing to establish decent strongholds in Chennai and across the state in the 2021 assembly polls. 

According to reports close to the developments, the Tamil Nadu BJP unit has levied fresh tasks and instructions to the state general secretaries, youth wing members, and senior leaders of the party to work towards ensuring that the party wins at least five of the 22 assembly constituencies in Chennai. The state unit of the Central ruling party has been planning to invest more time and campaign strategies to enhance the booth level committees in these five constituencies in Chennai - Egmore, Harbour, T Nagar, Mylapore, and Virugambakkam. 

In these five constituencies, BJP State president L Murugan has been preparing to contest in the Harbour constituency, which would likely become a crucial development, in the party's race to have a successful ending and to have a representative in the legislative assembly. Speaking to a news agency on why the party had chosen these five constituencies in the capital, one of the state BJP leaders said that these constituencies had given encouraging numbers in the 2016 assembly polls. 

The leader said the party had done well in these five potential constituencies while it was not observing an alliance with the state parties. These constituencies had given a good number of votes where the party had secured closely to 20,000 votes in each constituency and these constituencies have stable supporters for BJP. The state leader further stated that BJP state president L Murugan has been mulling to contest in the Harbour constituency. 

The youth wing members and leaders have been instructed to conduct various programmes and campaigns for the party in these five constituencies to ensure that these constituencies would elect and send BJP candidates as their representatives in the legislative assembly. The party has also been framing the benefits of the Central government schemes as a factor of speaking to the voters to win their votes towards the party. 

The Tamil Nadu BJP has been rolling out these plans amid the alliance with the ADMK and when the alliance talks are yet to begin in the state. The BJP state unit had already asserted that it would be contesting in the assembly polls along with the ADMK and when there was no official confirmation from the allied parties on the seat-sharing, the BJP has seemingly fixed that these five constituencies in Chennai are for the party and the state unit is also preparing with the plan to demand more seats from the ADMK across the state. 

The BJP unit hopes that it would enhance the party base in the state in four months and the senior leaders say that the party is ready to contest the polls independently if the ADMK has failed to provide the number of seats as per its demand. The leaders stated that it would also look to install a new alliance and several leaders of the state unit have already started the preparations for elections in their respective constituencies.

According to reports, Tamil Nadu would possibly witness several electoral fronts in the state - DMK and its alliance, ADMK and its alliance, Naam Tamilar Party, Actor turned politician Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam, and Rajini if he announces his political entry. Apart from these, there are other regional parties who are yet to announce their stand in the upcoming polls. 

The real fight would and as always between DMK and ADMK and the polls would be crucial for ADMK as while it hopes to retain the power, it has been leveled with the staunch allegations from the oppositions in the range of issues like COVID-19 handling, NEET, and several allegations of corruption and flawed governance. As the ADMK is bracing up the new set of challenges from dealing with the intra-party factions to the release of VK Sasikala, BJP's plan would shock the ADMK as the ruling party may receive pressure from the BJP in winning the seats as BJP is hoping to change the history from being an ever losing party in the state to reserve its strongholds.