Campaigning picking up in TN

Electioneering for 39 Lok Sabha seats that face voting on April 24 in Tamil Nadu has been gaining momentum with heads of political parties and their candidates going all out to woo voters.
Though the election process has not begun formally in Tamil Nadu, AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa who is on her second phase of campaign has been criss-crossing every nook and corner of the state beating the scorching sun to ensure that her party wins more number of seats.
The electoral authorties will issue notification setting in motion the poll process on March 29 in Tamil Nadu.

Jayalalithaa, whose party has taken the electoral plunge without forging poll truck with any player and even dumping former allies, the two Left parties, is keen to realise her ambition of playing a prominent role at the national level after the polls.
Jayalalithaa seems to be planning on taking advantage of the political turmoil that has beseiged DMK, particularly in the wake of the sibling war between Karunanidhi's sons -- Stalin and Alagiri and also to cash in on welfare programmes she has been implementing after returning to power in the 2011 assembly polls.
The electoral battle in Tamil Nadu has also undergone changes over the years, which largely had the characteristics of bipolar -- with DMK and AIADMK fighting between them in the wake of emergence of local outfits like DMDK, MDMK, PMK, VCK and others.

The coming poll has also witnessed birth of hitherto unseen political combinations as evident from the birth of a rainbow alliance sewn by BJP with five local outfits.