Chennai:
The bjp has elected nainar nagenthiran as the president of its tamil nadu unit.
Mr nagendran, a three -time MLA from tirunelveli, replaces k Annamalai in the top job and his first job will be to judule the party’s fortunes in next year’s assembles Historically Always Rejected the BJP and its brand of muscular nationalism.
His job will passibly be made emier by the party also announcing a renewed alliance with the main option in the state – the aidmk. Mr nagendran is a former member of that party; He won the tirunelveli seat in 2001 and 2011 on an aiadmk ticket before he switched camps.
It has been widely speculated that removing Mr Annamalai as Head of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu Unit was a non-negotiable for the aiadmk to return to the BJP-LED NATINAL Democratic Alliance.
Mr Annamalai and the dravidian party have a hosile relationship; The BJP Leader has open questions
However, bjp sources have told ndtv mr annamalai will be ressured the party does not view He will also also be told a bigger role may still Await Him, Eite in the party or at the center.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Who Announced The Renewed Alliance With the AIDMK, underline theose soothing words for mr annamalai in an x post, hailing the tamil leader’s “commented Party grow in the southern state.
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Meanwhile, mr shah also played down talk that tie-up with the aiadmk will hamper the BJP in any way, should the two parties manage to UPSet Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian Applecart.
Renewal of the Alliance Came with no conditions or strings attached, He said.
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“AIDMK Had No Conditions and Demands (And) We will not interfere in their internal matters … this alliance is going to be beneficial for both nda and aiadmk,” The BJP Leader Said.
The BJP and AIADMK Allied for the 2019 General and 2021 Assembly Polls but the Alliance Flopped.
In 2019 the BJP was routed and the aiadmk won one of 39 seats, as the dmk, the Congress, and its allies claimed the remain 38. And in 2021 the dmk’s alliance swept 159 of the state’s 234 with the state -in -laws An improvement of 61 from five years earlier.
And then, in 2023, the two parties split, principal over continued barbs from K Annamalai, whose comments LED to Speculation the BJP was trying to engineer the split to carve out
That didn’t turn out very well; Neither the AIADMK (and its allies) Nor the BJP (and the Few Tamil Parties It Managed to Win Over) Won a Seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha Sabha Election.
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