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 Why was everybody charming Vijayakanth and why was he playing hard to get? Aditi Phadnis reports 

Narendra Modi had quite recently got chosen pioneer of the Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary gathering. He was in the Central Hall of Parliament to thank his associates, his gathering furthermore organization together accomplices of the National Democratic Alliance.

From a separation he spotted DMDK (Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam) pioneer "Commander" Vijayakanth and his wife, Premalatha.

Encompassed as he was by individuals from Parliament, Modi impelled himself towards the couple, bowed low in a namaskar to Premalatha and said with deference: 'By God! Kya kaam kiya aapne (What an accomplishment)!'

Those were powerful days. The DMDK was a piece of the NDA in the Lok Sabha decisions. The Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP didn't especially like the thought of being in union with the DMDK, however didn't have quite a bit of a decision.

The DMDK challenged 14 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats, getting around 16 for every penny of the votes in those seats. Genuine, Captain did not win a solitary seat in the Lok Sabha. Be that as it may, the gathering managed to place itself in the retribution in the governmental issues of Tamil Nadu scarcely 10 years after it was conceived.

The DMDK was shaped in 2005, and anticipated itself as a different option for the two prevailing Dravidian parties - the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

It challenged the 2006 get together surveys and the 2009 Lok Sabha surveys alone. Its vote offer rose from eight for every penny in the 2006 get together surveys to 10 for each penny in the 2009 Lok Sabha surveys.

In 2011, the gathering packed away 29 seats in the get together surveys subsequent to adjusting to J Jayalalithaa's AIADMK, yet the two went separate ways in the blink of an eye a short time later. In 2014 it neglected to win any seats. In front of the 2016 get together races in Tamil Nadu, all gatherings started charming the DMDK from the word go.