Is DMK's Stalin preparing grounds for a pan-India anti-BJP front?

Stalin brought several anti-BJP leaders together to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Karunanidhi's entry into the Tamil Nadu assembly

When Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao called on the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) working president M.K. Stalin on Sunday, it set many tongues wagging. It is not always that a chief minister calls on an opposition leader from another state. At least when the opposition leader is not M. Karunanidhi – the DMK’s now inactive patriarch – whose reputation as a regional leader who fiercely fought for federal rights made him the centre of gravity for alliances aimed at challenging the status quo at the Centre.

Stalin, who inherited the leadership of the party, has worked hard to take the