: Wrong strategy forces Palaniswami to fight for CM nomination #IndiaNEWS #National By Venkatachari JagannathanChennai, Oct 4 | At a time when everything was going fine for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

Wrong strategy forces Palaniswami to fight for CM nomination #IndiaNEWS #National
By Venkatachari JagannathanChennai, Oct 4 | At a time when everything was going fine for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling AIADMK Joint Coordinator K. Palaniswami, the demand for announcing the Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2021 elections by his supporters has put him on a difficult wicket, said analysts and politicians.
They also said the threat of the party going back to the position where it was soon after the death of General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa also exists owing to the power struggle.
The going was good for Palaniswami including the general public perception about the government handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The only negative point was the reopening of liquor shops. The opposition had nothing much except complaining about corruption.
All that Palaniswami had to do was to consolidate his position silently without precipitating any issue, a political analyst told IANS preferring anonymity.
But it was not to be. In an apparently wrong strategy Palaniswamis supporters raised the issue of the party announcing the Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2021 assembly elections.
This gave the space for another Chief Minister aspirant and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam to raise the issue of forming a steering committee to guide the party, the analyst added.
It was a wrong strategy on the part of Chief Minister supporters to rake up the issue of Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2021 elections, former Member of Parliament (MP) K. C. Palanisamy told IANS.
Sitting Chief Minister will have to be the Chief Ministerial candidate and the party cannot project another person and fight the polls, a senior leader of AIADMK told IANS preferring anonymity.
The focus should have been on projecting the good deeds of the government so that Palaniswami would have been a default Chief Ministerial candidate. Now a sitting Chief Minister fighting to be declared as the partys Chief Ministerial candidate. It is really a climb down for him, the analyst added.
Even at the recent partys Executive Committee meeting the stage could have been managed better. Palaniswami could have agreed for a steering committee and asked Panneerselvam to give his list of nominees while settling the Chief Ministerial candidate issue then, Palanisamy said.
If that had been done, the entire focus would be on the Chief Ministerial candidate and the steering committee issue could have been pickled. They didnt manage the stage well though it was laden with their supporters, Palanisamy added.
With elections coming closer, it is the party that will gain importance and not the government. As per the existing legal structure, the AIADMK has two leaders Panneerselvam as Coordinator and Palaniswami as Joint Coordinator with equal powers.

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