Chennai:
Renewal of BJP-AIADMK alliance In Tamil Nadu, on both sides, the Union Home Minister does not come up with conditions or wires What Shah Said on Friday evening, as he and senior Tamil party leaders sat together in Chennai, announced a plan to contest the election for next year.
The BJP leader said, “AIADMK had no condition and demand (and) We would not interfere in AIADMK internal affairs … This alliance is going to be beneficial for both NDA and AIADMK.”
“We also work. You (press) don’t worry … Leave something to handle us,” Mr. Shah, who, who Last month met AIADMK leaders in DelhiAs a precursor to today’s announcement, amazed.
Mr. Shah also called the tie-up “natural partnership” with AIADMK and said that Tamil Party leader, Edappi’s Palaniswami, will be the former Chief Minister’s face.
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The confirmation of the BJP-Aaadmk tie-up converted K Annamalai as the president of its state unit after the news; The BJP chose its deputy – Nanar Nagendran, who was a three -time MLA from Tirunelveli and perhaps more importantly, a former AIADMK member.
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And on that front, Mr. Shah’s message – that K Annamalai contributed to the fate of the party in the southern state, one of which has historically rejected – it seemed that the state leadership switch was built with an eye on the AIADMK.
But why?
By September 2023, Rewind, and AIADMK had gone out of the BJP -led National Democratic alliance a few months before the national election. The Tamil party was upset that Mr. Annamalai continued to discredit his current and previous leaders.
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Mr. Annamalai made important remarks about the data of the prestigious AIADMK, including former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, with which the BJP had associated with the BJP in the 1998 Lok Sabha poll and won Big.
A fierce AIADMK demanded its resignation but the BJP then refused to obtain.
Mr. Annamalai’s comments then speculated that the BJP was trying to engineer a partition from AIADMK and took out its place – something was never managed – in Tamil Nadu.
It did not come out very well; Neither AIADMK (and its colleagues) nor BJP (and some Tamil parties managed to win) won a seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP’s heart change, many people believe, from a widely held perspective that the party is not actually traction with the Tamil Nadu voters, at least enough (now) to challenge the ruling DMK and its colleagues, including the Congress.
The BJP, however, will also know that it is lost – Heavy – each of the last three major elections in Tamil Nadu contested as a colleague with AIADMK.
In the 2021 state election, AIADMK won just 75 seats – five years below 136 – and DMK -Congress was excluded by Compine. In the 2019 general election, AIADMK was rooted in a similar way – going from 37 seats to just one – while DMK went from 0 to 39.
And in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, DMK and his colleagues won all 39 seats.
