Amid the growing heat of politics in Tamil Nadu ahead of the assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Chennai on February 14 to inaugurate various projects. The Prime Minister will be arriving with the speculations on whether he will fix the alliance with the ADMK in the midst of the intra-party tensions triggered by the arrival of VK Sasikala. 

Narendra Modi will arrive at the Chennai airport by 10.40 am on February 14 and reach the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium by a chopper, where he will be laying foundation stones for several projects and inaugurate many other completed projects. The state government has organized a grand event to host the Prime Minister and the Tamil Nadu BJP unit has also planned to offer a royal welcome to the Prime Minister in Chennai. 

However, Narendra Modi will be landing in Chennai, not with the pack of any political agenda as he will stay in Chennai only for three hours. After inaugurating the projects, the Prime Minister will be leaving for Kochi by 1.35 pm, three hours after arriving in Chennai. According to reports, there is no party-level meeting scheduled with the Prime Minister and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami, and his Deputy Panneerselvam will be having an informal chat with Modi in the stadium. 

Though coming with the limited tour, the Prime Minister's arrival has grasped major attention as the state BJP unit hopes that his visit will give a crucial push to the party in the assembly polls and to have its hand strong on ADMK in the alliance talks. The political observers say that there would an informal political agenda in his three-hour-long visit and it is expected that he will speak to the top two ADMK leaders on the sidelines of the event over fixing the alliance and arrival of VK Sasikala. 

The Prime Minister arrives to unveil the projects, which can be done virtually, days after he skipped the invitation from the ADMK leaders to inaugurate the memorial of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Edappadi Palaniswami had directly met Modi in Delhi and invited him to unveil the memorial, before the arrival of VK Sasikala. Nearly a week after Sasikala's arrival, the Prime Minister will come to Chennai on February 14 and under the guise of inaugurating the projects, the reports say he would speak with the ADMK leaders about the alliance and about Sasikala's political resurgence.

Being the first legislative election since the demise of political giants Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, the BJP hopes to have a political breakthrough in the polls by emerging victories, not on a huge scale but in the numbers that the party hadn't reached before. For BJP, the current ADMK leaders fit well to its agenda of emerging victories, and the Central ruling party won't be pleased if the alliance with the ADMK breaks down after the political drift. BJP needs to ride back on the ADMK to enjoy the alliance and dominate the current leaders. 

When Edappadi Palaniswami, after meeting the Prime Minister last month, vowed that Sasikala won't be welcomed in the party, it had apparently shown that BJP too wishes not to lose the grip on the current ADMK. The reports say that BJP will not be glad to witness the party going into the hands of VK Sasikala, which may turn against the Central ruling party unless Sasikala is convinced that BJP will favor her political resurgence. However, the current ADMK leaders are preparing to meet the clash with Sasikala to keep the party under their full control. 

As Edappadi Palaniswami has been levied the challenge not to lose the fortress around the party to block Sasikala's entry by ensuring that no leader will jump to Sasikala's faction, the political observers say Modi will likely support Palaniswami to tackle the challenge if the ADMK accepts to maintain status quo on BJP and grant more legislative seats in the upcoming assembly polls. Though the three-hour-long tour won't fix the alliance, the Prime Minister's visit will eventually end by starting the BJP campaign in Tamil Nadu in an unprecedented fashion. 

According to reports, following Modi's arrival, Tamil Nadu will witness the tour of national BJP leaders in the upcoming days. BJP plans to camp various state and national leaders to the poll-bound state of Tamil Nadu and it has been expected that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Salem in March and BJP National President JP Nadda will also be visiting Tamil Nadu later this month. Nadda has visited Tamil Nadu during the Pongal festival. 

It must be noted that Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Chennai late last year and under the guise of inaugurating the government projects, he unveiled the unprecedented roadshow to display that BJP can't be written off from Tamil Nadu and asserted that BJP will face the upcoming elections in the alliance with ADMK. In the same fashion, Modi is also arriving in Chennai to unveil the government projects and his visit has drawn huge attention. It has been expected that he will address the event during which he will speak about the schemes and achievements of his government. After his Chennai visit, the Prime Minister will be traveling to Kerala, which is also one of the poll-bound states along with Tamil Nadu, and will face the elections in summer.