 Hello and welcome to NewsClip. The opposition alliance led by the ADMK has faltered down. The Patali Makhalkarchi, a very strong party in the northern part of Tamil Nadu, have walked out of the ADMK alliance. The BJP is also marked by different issues within the party and from outside. To discuss more in detail, we have with us Mr. R.K. Radhakrishnan, senior journalist and political analyst. Welcome sir. Sir, talking about the opposition in the assembly, do you think that the ADMK was good enough in the assembly session or they fell short of their expectations? I think the current ADMK is being controlled by the BJP. That's BJP in Delhi, not the local BJP but the BJP in Delhi. So what we see is that though the ADMK wants to support and did finally support the state government on the new resolution, it staged a walkout and said all kinds of things which is unnecessary to be said at that point of time. We again saw the same kind of approach when it came to the Citizenship Amendment will where again the government passed the resolution condemning the centre and also condemning the new form laws which have been implemented. What we see is the ADMK which is much more keener on pleasing the BJP than catering to its constituents and keeping the constituency happy. I think that is because of the pressures that is on them and we already have seen some 4-5 former ministers being raided. Even all those circumstances what we see is a disjointed action by the ADMK in the assembly and they did not raise a lot of questions which needed to be raised. They were trying to score political points and even individual MLAs were trying to score political points trying to raise issues. You didn't do something earlier. You said you promised this and you did this and all of that. It was very easy to point out mistakes that happened in the past and holding the government to account. But remember this is only the first session of the assembly. The government when the assembly started was just over a month or month and a half into power and in that particular session it is impossible to hold a government to account for anything because they have just come into power and anything that has gone wrong was because of the previous government. We didn't have a kind of say through 2D shooting or any other law and order issue or whatnot or a terrorist attack or whatnot to hold the government accountable. Given that context I am very sure that what the ADMK could have done is to actually nudge the government in a particular direction which it failed to do during the session. I think that is the saddest part of this ADMK. It had a chance not to be confrontational and at the same time get some of its agenda approved and the ADMK simply failed to grab that chance. Second question is about the coordination within the opposition in the assembly. Recently the PMK has also walked out of the ADMK alliance but even before that we can see we saw that there was no coordination between the ADMK, PMK or even with the BJP. What is your opinion on this discontent among the parties? I don't think there can be any coordination between these three parties because the three are pulling in different directions. The ADMK in substantive issues like CAA or whatever the central government is interested in will definitely take the BJP line. In that way it is a practically a BJP party. But in other issues which are of importance to the state or when one of their leaders is subjected to a raid or whatever they take it is a completely different stand. Now the state BJP is hamstrung because going along with the protesting against some of the raids that happened on the ministers will mean that the BJP also is supporting the wrongdoings of the ADMK ministers and the state BJP itself knows what happened during that period. You should remember that between just end of December, 29th of December and 14th of February, I think just before the announcement was made more than 64 crores was spent just on advertising across the media by the ADMK government. There are hundreds and thousands of these examples which show improper impropriety if not wrongdoing. There is nothing wrong in spending for advertisements. But the point is that this amount of money has never been spent before by any government including a gelata government so close to an election with an eye to influencing the election. I think that is what is extremely wrong about what happened in the recent past. So you look at each one of these instances the BJP is actually in a blind spot I mean is completely in a rigid place between a rock and a hard place trying to figure out how to negotiate this particular path because it does not want to be identified as a corrupt political party. It does not want to be seen as supporting a corrupt political party or for political individuals. Now it cannot do without the support of the ADMK and even for the local body elections they have tied up with the ADMK. PMK is a completely different problem. If it wants to go ahead and be relevant today one number one it has to implement get the 10.5% reservation for one year implemented which is which Tallinn has already done and of course the second thing obviously is that it has to prove that it is still a viable political entity in the state. For both these reasons it cannot be with the ADMK one to get anything I mean you can have the 10.5% approved but then under the rules and regulations are framed on top of the act it is impossible I mean you cannot get the act implemented at all. Now for that you need the ADMK sorry the DMK government which is in power now to get it done and that so that it has to support the ADMK government I mean DMK government at right now and that is why they didn't work out during the CAA protests. At the same time if they do not go it alone in this particular election the local body elections it will seem as if you know the PMK is nothing without the support of the ADMK because already we have seen in the previous 2021 assembly elections that the PMK is lost ground and only five of its people won out of the 23. So what we see now is the PMK one trying to protect itself as a political party and trying to you know play both sides when it comes to the question of its own survival. So it wants the ADMK because the BJP is in it it wants to help out the DMK or be supportive of the DMK because the DMK is in power it is playing the game both ways and I don't I'm not sure how long that will last and where the where it will take the party. So it is a force of circumstances that all the three can are unable to that is the DMK sorry ADMK BJP and the PMK are unable to work with work with one another. Talking about the BJP it's an as you said it's in a tight spot or in the hard spot but we all know that when Mr Annamalai was appointed as the president of the state unit there were a lot of dissenting voices from the senior leadership as well and with the current scenario with the videos of senior leaders coming out even perpetually with the approval of the state president what do you think is the condition of the BJP because it when four members of its four members were elected to the assembly they were all celebrated but all those things seems to have died down now. Yeah right now the situation in the BJP is that there is a Brahmin-Brahmin fight going on and there's a Brahmin-OBC fight going on the Brahmin-Brahmin fight has led to some of the Brahmins being you know either thrown out of the state or have had to take a vaccine Raghavan was a KT Raghavan was a victim of that particular fight and then we say Ilaganation being moved as a governor of another state so I think effectively that lobby has declined so to speak now it is the OBC lobby which is trying to gain the upper hand and I think to a large extent they've been able to gain the upper hand as well now the next question is that you know there are fights within the OBC community itself within the BJP and of course there is also Ilmurugan who belongs to the schedule cast so that fight will start now and the way anomaly approach of issues also is not particularly liked by many of the senior leadership with the party so they have to figure out a way to you know swallow their pride and listen to what anomaly says because it is impossible to replace Annamalai he's BL Santoshas and Amish Shaspik so he's not going anyway they're going to persist with him despite the fact that he has the propensity to say a lot of things which are not really in the realm of truth or has any particular relevance to the state of Tamil Nadu but I think they will have to accept the fact and work with him there is no other way out and the BJP is a very very long way to go before you know it becomes a substantive political party in Tamil Nadu itself. Thank you so for joining us. Thank you so much. That's all we have time now. Thank you for watching Newscript.