Rajini must have an alliance and be the CM candidate, says political analysts in TN

By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Dec 4 : For the actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth even as a Chief Ministerial candidate, a political alliance to fight the 2021 polls is important and further the parties he aligns with should not have negative votes, said political analysts.
“If Rajinikanth’s party goes it alone, then it may get a maximum of 5-8 per cent votes. Most of the voters will be anti-DMK and apolitical voters of AIADMK,” political analyst Sriram Seshadri told IANS.
“If Rajinikanth is the Chief Ministerial candidate then straightaway he will have a minimum of 10 per cent vote share and alongwith his party’s political ideologies and other policies he can gain more,” added another political analyst not wanting to be quoted told IANS.
The analysts also said if Rajinkanth decides not to be his party’s Chief Ministerial candidate, then his party would most probably end up in the five per cent vote share party club.
Earlier, Rajinikanth had said he would be the party leader while the Chief Ministerial candidate will be somebody else.
Rajinikanth also has to face the challenge of DMK and the propaganda of its allies that he is the B team of BJP in Tamil Nadu or a mask for BJP as his party’s chief coordinator is none other than Ra.Arjunamurthy, who till Thursday was Tamil Nadu BJP’s Intellectual Wing head.