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Radhakrishnan doesn’t just replace Dhankhar, he increases BJP’s play in Tamil Nadu, where polls are due next year. But the party has chosen short-term opportunism over long-term brand building in TN.

The election of CP Radhakrishnan as Vice President of India, after the unexpected exit of Dhankhar in July, is less about NDA’s obvious edge in Parliament numbers and more about the optics in Tamil Nadu, where he’s been a prominent voice of

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His selection as NDA’s candidate was about putting the TN Dravidian ecosystem in a dilemma. This was quickly countered by INDI Alliance putting up a Telugu candidate, former SC judge B Sudershan Reddy, in the hope that NDA’s allies in the state would face a similar

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. The election results, however, suggest that regional solidarity did not play much of a role in the final outcome.

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