Key Highlights
- Never a serious player in the state before the dawn of the Modi-era, the BJP has been humbled in every election since his arrival in 2014 (2019, 2021 and 2024).
- Pundits and laypersons, Tamil Nadu confounds everybody alike.
- What makes it the strongest citadel of regionalism in contemporary politics that is now soaked in nationalism?
- Why is it a unique entity even among its culturally similar southern states?
- All these states are also fiercely proud of their cultural moorings, but none practices antagonism to national parties as a principle of state policy, so to say.
