Overview

• On June 8, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the Tamil Nadu BJP state core committee meeting and interact with office-bearers at mandal, district and state levels.
• He will begin with prayers at the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai and later address party workers near Othakadai under reinforced security arrangements.
• According to national co-in-charge P. Sudhakar Reddy, Shah will outline a strategic roadmap to strengthen the BJP’s organisational machinery ahead of next year’s elections.
• Party insiders view the visit as an effort to broaden the NDA alliance in Tamil Nadu by courting regional outfits such as the PMK and DMDK alongside the AIADMK.
• The DMK has accused the BJP of plotting Hindi imposition and seeking to curb southern representation through delimitation, charges the BJP dismisses as diversions from the DMK’s performance record.