Chennai:
Tamil Nadu BJP unit defended the alliance with DMDK while stating that the party may not have made any major dent in Lok Sabha election but its impact was felt in the state.
Talking to Express, vice-president of state BJP unit M Chakravarthy also hoped that the state unit is hoping for four ministerial berths for the state.
“We hope that state BJP president Pon Radhakrishnan may get a cabinet berth. We are also keeping our options open on other candidates,” he said.
To a query over BJP alliance failing to make inroads in Tamil Nadu despite the Modi wave, Chakravarthy said that the election has been good for BJP.
“We were contesting against two major Dravidian parties who have been ruling the state politics. Our performance has been better than DMK who have failed to open an account,” he said.
Chakravarthy rejected that the alliance had been a failure rather he said that if the alliance would have been formed earlier, things would have been different.
Interestingly, the Modi wave across the nation has boosted the spirit of the cadre who are now eying the assembly elections. And Chakravarthy hopes that his party will contest the assembly elections with the same alliance.
He also rejected the theory that the setback was due to DMDK. “The alliance with DMDK was a plus point,” he said.
He said that BJP will try to become an alternative against the two Dravidian parties. “We will be adopting a constituency each besides focusing on younger generation who require a change,” he added.
National secretary of BJP Tamiisai Soundarajan speaking to reporters said that the results can’t be called as debacle for BJP. “The alliance against two Dravidian parties itself is a victory,” she said, adding that the party got a good voting percentage.
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