Sivaganga, Aug. 24 :    Sivaganga, Aug. 24:  He does not spout polemics like Karunanidhi. Nor does he indulge in histrionics like Jayalalitha. But Govindasamy Karuppiah Moopanar, betel-chewing, relaxed and poised, has his own following. The TMC chief stresses that the people of Tamil Nadu deserve a break from the ?misrule of Dravidian parties?. ?I see a silent revolution, the people see a need for change,? he says, his articulation soft and deliberate. He is buoyed by the support he gets from numerous Dalit organisations. ?When I declared that the TMC would go alone, many sought to write me off. They called me a political orphan. Now you see how many organisations are supporting us and the crowds I draw. We are determined to make a final assault on Fort St George in 2001,? he says. Moopanar is trying to revive the upper caste-Dalit-Muslim votebank the Congress had till the Sixties. Dalit organisations are flocking to the TMC because the Dravidian parties will not touch them for fear of alienating the intermediate castes. In standing by the Dalits, however, Moopanar risks losing the votes of these castes in the southern districts. Opinion on Moopanar is divided. Some see him as a hero of sorts who had the guts to stand up to the tantrums of Jayalalitha, a politician untainted apart from the Indian Bank scam, as the inheritor of K. Kamaraj?s legacy. His Dravidian critics, though, scoff at this image. ?Moopanar is tilting at the windmills. The traditional Congress votebank is fragmented. He does not have the charisma of a Jayalalitha or a Karunanidhi. He is deluding himself by trying to reinvent himself as a latter-day Kamaraj. The milieu has changed. And even Kamaraj faltered in his last years,? says a critic. Moopanar and his lieutenant P. Chidambaram are unfazed. They are relying on good candidates, talk of value-based politics and the unhappy track record of Dravidian parties. ?The current round of elections are only a semi-final,? Chidambaram says. A good performance, he feels, will enhance the TMC?s image. It would then be able to cobble together a much stronger alliance in future. Vaiko?s MDMK, for instance ? born to protest the Karunanidhi-Murasoli Maran clique ? now has an uneasy alliance with the DMK because of the BJP factor. Karunanidhi has taken in his prot?g?-turned-rebel, but would gladly get rid of him before the polls. The MDMK could then gravitate towards the TMC. So could the PMK.