The second phase of Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai’s En Mann En Makkal yatra has come to an end this week. The third phase of the yatra is planned from October 4 to October 31, covering around 40 assembly constituencies in the western and delta regions.
While the momentum and turnout have significantly increased in the second phase compared to the first phase, according to party leaders, a look back at the yatra showed that it had dropped many of the original components it was conceived with initially.
As many as 11 major public meetings named ‘Thamarai malarum maanadu’ were planned in key places. In the first two phases of the yatra, they should have happened in Madurai, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Coimbatore, and The Nilgiris. However, barring a moderate-sized meeting in Tirunelveli in which Union Minister Bhupender Yadav participated, the meetings did not happen anywhere else.
