A total of 343 players from 187 countries will participate in this. Pragnananda, a young player from Tamil Nadu, will be participating on behalf of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the tournament on July 28. It seems that the Tamil Nadu government is going to invite the Chief Ministers of all the states to participate in this opening ceremony.
The DMK government has invited Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the first person. DMK MP Senthil Kumar, who has gone to Mumbai for this, met Eknath Shinde in person and invited him. At that time, he presented Shinde with a statue of a horse named Thambi, the emblem of this tournament.
Eknath Shinde, who recently became Chief Minister with the support of the BJP, created disgruntled MLAs in the Shiv Sena party, thereby ousting Uddhav Thackeray’s chief ministership.
Referring to this dramatic change in the state politics of Maharashtra, state BJP President Annamalai had recently indirectly threatened the DMK government that an Eknath Shinde would emerge in Tamil Nadu as well.
In this situation, DMK has done the first honor to Eknath Shinde and has caused surprise in the political arena. Political watchers are questioning the need for the DMK government to personally meet Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and call for the opening ceremony of Chess Olympiad, with the support of the BJP, which has been harassing and threatening their rule in some way.
They also raise the question of whether the DMK is implicitly condoning Shinde’s betrayal of Uddhav Thackeray by giving the first honor to Eknath Shinde.
It is not known that the Tamil Nadu government has yet invited the Chief Ministers of the neighboring states of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Puducherry, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has always been friendly with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to participate in this ceremony. In this situation, such questions are raised because the DMK government has invited Eknath Shinde, who is sitting on the throne with the support of the BJP.