With the AIADMK and the BJP firming up their alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the focus turns to this question: Does the alliance have to rope in any other party with a proven vote share?
The answer is in the affirmative if one is to go by the 2021 election results of select Assembly seats that constitute 16 Lok Sabha constituencies. In Tamil Nadu, six Assembly constituencies form one Lok Sabha constituency. Of the 16 Lok Sabha constituencies in question, with the 2021 Assembly election results kept in mind, the AIADMK-BJP combine was ahead of the DMK-led front in the constituencies of Pollachi, Coimbatore, the Nilgiris, Tiruppur and Tenkasi.