Hectic poll adjustments, combinations and unity moves start in view of fast approaching national elections.

As the general elections are coming closer, hectic activities in both the ruling party despensation and its off shoots and the non BJP opposition parties have enhanced dramtically.

The Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandra Babu Naidu and his party TDP who till a year ago were the most trusted colleague and ally of prime minister Narendra Modi and the BJP led NDA is today one of the nucleus of the entire non BJP opposition who have all of a sudden initiated his efforts to unify all the like minded secular parties national as well as the regional, ensuring that the saffron party and its prime minister Narendra Modi is defeated at the hustings.

Badly annoyed and disenchanted with the prime minister Narendra Modi and his government for not granting special status to his state Andhra Pradesh despite his repeated pleadings, it was the Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party only who’d brought a no confidence motion against the government policies in the Lok Sabha and ventured successfully to expose the BJP led NDA government of its various ills including on significant burning issues such as inflation, unemployment and above all the most controvertial Rafale jet fighters’ alleged scam issue.

The party in fact provided the fullest opportunity to Rahul Gandhi as the opposition leader of the largest party to test his eloquence and put prime minister Narendra Modi and his government in the dock on issues of unemployment and Rafale in particular seeking maximum media publicity.

Today, the one time arch rival of the Congress party and its chief Rahul Gandhi, the TDP chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandra Babu Naidu is the trusted friend of the former who arrived to 10 Janpath, New Delhi a few days ago and cordially met the UPA advisory council’s chairpeson Sonia Gandhi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi extending his fullest solidarity with the chief of the 135 year old Congress and also urging the rest of the non BJP opposition to forget the leadership issue which can be sorted out post general election keeping in view the timely need and necessity to defeat the BJP.

In his honest quest for an anti BJP opposition unity, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandra Babu Naidu says that the leadership issue amongst the non BJP uniting opposition conglomeration is immaterial but defeating the saffron party with a formidable force of a unanimous grand alliance is the real n actual need of the hour.

Naidu had already met the TDP chief and CM Mamata Bannerji, the former UP CM Bahan Mayawati, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, National Conference stalwart and former CM J& K Farooq Abdullah, Sharad Yadav and leaders of CPM n CPI as well and has urged to all of them to come on one platform forgetting their squeezed political vested interests and differences.

Chandra Babu Naidu is also trying to pacify both the over ambitious PM claimants Mamata Banerjee and Mayavati so as to enable a credible n cohesive unity of all the national and regional opposition parties in order to pose a grave challenge to the uncontrollable juggernaut of Prime minister Modi.

It looks as if the opposition leaders’ unity efforts in the shape of a grand alliance is gaining quite a good momentum and a new credible ray of hope is emerging out of the dark, for establishing a powerful political alternative against the current political dispensation at the centre and states as well.

However, such conglomeration would only fructify if the leadership issue is kept at bay for the time being, till the commencement of the national elections and results declared there after.

While Chandra Babu Naidu and Rahul Gandhi including national leaders like Sharad Pawar, Sharad Yadav, Tejasvi Yadav, Sita Ram Yachuri etc are all for the grand alliance Mamta, Mayawati and Akhilesh seem to have been disillussioned to some extent in view of Rahul Gandhi’s increasing political clout at the national scene particularly after his increasing eloquence n blitkriez against the prime minister Narendra Modi n BJP on Rafale jet fighter and CBI issues and other matters of national significance.

Meanwhile the BJP has also geared up its alliance efforts and is trying to woo the regional parties with whatever maximum it can accord to them in order to keep them in good humour. In Bihar it has already done the 50/ 50 commitment on seat adjustments for 2019 with Nitish Yadav’s Janata Dal (U) sidelining the Lok Janshakti Party of union minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

The saffron party seems to be banking on the Ram Mandir card and there is an overall demand from its parent organisation RSS and its betenoire Shiv Sena for bringing an ordinance on Ram Temple issue not relying on the apex court’s verdict apprehensive of it being delayed n not coming in its favour.

The likely construction of a 100 feet high statue of Lord Rama in Ayodhya costing over 300 crores and lightening of lakhs of Diyas/ lamps in Ayodhya on the day of Deepawali including the visit of Shiv Sena chief Udhav Thakrey at the disputed site on 25th November, though annoyed with the saffron party, are unambiguous signs that efforts to polarise the votes of the majority community in 2019 in the name of Lord Rama and His magnificient huge temple through legislation etc are the saffron party’s well thought out plans to win over the Hindu votes to regain power at the centre. What’s your take friends?