With Pongal event, Amit Shah reaches out to Tamil Nadu voters

TRICHY: Union location curate Amit Shah’s two-day sojourn to poll-bound Tamil Nadu ended connected an inconclusive enactment Monday, with nary evident breakthrough successful BJP’s efforts to fortify NDA successful the state.

There was anticipation that Shah would initiate confederation talks with imaginable partners, PMK and DMDK during the visit, portion besides seeking a solution to the TTV Dhinakaran-O Panneerselvam impasse.AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K Palaniswami was expected to question to Trichy to conscionable Shah connected Monday. However, the gathering did not instrumentality place. “Such a gathering was not scheduled. Also, the nationalist gathering attended by Shah successful Pudukottai was a BJP event, not an NDA event.

Hence, allies were not invited,” a BJP subordinate said.Former AIADMK curate S P Velumani met Shah twice. Union commerce curate Piyush Goyal, who is BJP Tamil Nadu canvass in-charge, was contiguous during the archetypal interaction. However, some AIADMK and BJP functionaries remained tight-lipped astir the talks.Meanwhile, BJP sources said Shah whitethorn sojourn Chennai again aboriginal this month, erstwhile helium could conscionable EPS.Shah besides chaired a BJP halfway committee gathering connected Sunday. On Monday, Shah visited Jambukeswarar temple successful Thiruvanaikoil and Ranganathaswamy temple successful Srirangam. He aboriginal reached Trichy-Madurai NH, wherever BJP organised ‘Namma Ooru Modi Pongal Vizha’, a accepted Pongal solemnisation featuring 1,008 pots. While enactment cadres expected Shah to code the gathering, helium spent little than 30 minutes astatine the venue.