The 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections has brought an end to a 15 year (three election) streak, during which the Bharatiya Janata Party didn’t win a single Assembly constituency in the state. It must be also be remembered that BJP State President came a close second in Dharapuram, missing out by a little over 1,300 votes. Prior to this, it was in 1996 that the BJP had one legislator in the Tamil Nadu assembly, followed by 2001, when they had four legislators. Following their victory, Tamil Nadu BJP President L Murugan reminisced how he had vowed to make the lotus bloom in Tamil Nadu, when he had taken over as the party’s State president in early 2020. “BJP legislators will be standing tall in the midst of detractors who kept saying that the Lotus will not bloom in Tamil Nadu,” he recalled his 2020 vow, saying that it has been fulfilled.

Source: dna May 03, 2021 11:29 UTC