chennai more than actor rajinikanth taking the political plunge his statement about adopting spiritual politics had resulted in a larger debate in tamil nadu after the superstars december 31 address to his fans in a state that is covered neckdeep in dravidian politics and the waning rationalist flavour it did not come as a surprise that his talk about spiritual politics was seen more as an attempt to promote hindutvaright wing ideologue and editor of tamil political magazine thuglak s gurumurthy has just hinted at the various possibilities in the states politics by calling upon the bjp to align with the actor and asking it to realise the political returns such an approach could bring to it in the statewe need a change and bjp too should realize it and dump the thought of aligning with either of the two dravidian parties in tamil nadu bjp should go on its own and align with rajinikanth and that is sure to fetch unparalleled success gurumurthy said on sunday delivering his address on the 48th anniversary of thuglak whether it was his wish or if he just letting the cat out of the larger hindutva game plan for the state with union finance minister arun jaitley as chief guest for the occasion only further developments can revealbut rajinikanth who is yet to even reveal the name of his party or its policy and principles would do well to stick to his own thoughts gathered over multiple sessions with personalities across parties and even politics already the actors soft corner for hindutva is well known it is not wrong either as long as it remains his personal preference but he must be vary of taking those thoughts on to a larger political canvas in a state like tamil nadu the returns could be different even in a state that is longing for a change and tamil nadu had just witnessed the r k nagar bypoll where the bjp polled much less than the votes secured by notashortly after announcing his preference for spiritual politics rajinikanth was forced to explain that he actually meant pursuing something that is being truthful and one that was beyond any religion caste or creed despite his efforts doubts linger and debates continue about whether the actor was a front for the bjp looking for an honourable entry into the dravidian stateas if to dispel the doubts of him being an hindutva proponent rajinikanth called on ailing dmk leader m karunanidhi at his residence much to the chagrin of the latters son m k stalin spiritualism cannot succeed and overcome the spirit of dravidianism in tamil nadu stalin retorted promptly soon afterthe actor is yet to react to gurumurthy but it is likely that political prudence may see the actor skirting the issue