Coimbatore: The battleground of ideologies in Elections 2024. BJP's gateway to the South clashes with the formidable stronghold of Dravidian parties.
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00:08 Coimbatore, known for its textile industries, is often referred to as the Manchester of South India.
00:14 Beneath the veneer, Coimbatore is a battleground because of the clash between Hindutva and Dravidian ideology.
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00:24 Welcome to Deep Dive with Outlook.
00:26 In today's segment, we will be talking about Coimbatore and its transformation into an ideological battleground.
00:32 Dating back to the 1980s, the communal tensions between the Hindus and Muslims
00:37 heightened with the bomb blasts of 1998 in Coimbatore.
00:41 ALUMMA, the radical Islamic organization, allegedly carried out these blasts.
00:47 It was also Coimbatore where Prime Minister Modi held his first rally after assuming the office in 2014.
00:54 And in March 2024, he paid floral tributes to the victims of the 1998 blasts in a makeshift memorial square in Coimbatore.
01:02 Emphasizing on linguistic pride and regional autonomy, the Dravidian parties DMK and AIA-DMK
01:09 have emerged as the dominant parties of Tamil Nadu.
01:12 AIA-DMK has had a hold on Pongu Nadu for several years.
01:16 The party severed its alliance with BJP last year because of BJP's comments on previous party leaders like Jai Lalitha.
01:24 BJP has put forward their state leader and former IPS K. Anna Malai as the candidate for Coimbatore.
01:31 With his strong social media presence and assertive persona, he has emerged as the face of the party.
01:37 Thinking as an Indian citizen, this is the time you break the barrier.
01:41 Because we are going to get a lot of important amendments.
01:43 This election will be a symbolic one for Coimbatore.
01:46 Will BJP be able to open the political portal to the South through Coimbatore?
01:51 Or will Tamil Nadu stay in the stronghold of Dravidian ideology?
01:55 Read more on ideology in our 11th April issue, Farewell Ideology.