Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday claimed that “many Bharatiya Janata Party people” were now associated with actor Rajinikanth, who is set to launch his political party in January, PTI reported.
Rao also said that it was too early to assess the impact of Rajinikanth’s party in Tamil Nadu, since there was no clarity yet about its ideology and whether it would contest 2021 Assembly elections independently or with an alliance partner.
“What is his party structure, what exactly he is going to do, nobody knows”, Rao, who is All India Congress Committee’s Tamil Nadu in-charge, said. “Till then, how can we judge anything? Is he going to be with the BJP…what he wants to do…that all has to be seen.”
On Thursday, Rajinikanth had said that he would announce his party on December 31 and launch it in January next year, ending years of uncertainty about his entry into politics.
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