outlookindia.com 2021-05-14T12:38:50+05:30
The lotus will definitely bloom in Tamil Nadu. Whenever Tamilisai Soundararajan uttered these words during her tenure as the BJP’s Tamil Nadu president, they used to be greeted with scorn and ridicule. A spate of memes on social media would immediately follow. Tamilisai’s confidence had looked far-fetched after her party’s severe drubbing in the 2016 assembly elections and subsequent bypolls. But, on May 11, when four BJP MLAs took oath in the Tamil Nadu assembly (after a gap of 20 years), Tamilisai, now Governor of Telangana with additional charge as Lt Governor of Pondicherry, would have helped herself to a smile of satisfaction.