Tamil Nadu Will get New BJP Chief, Day After Alliance Introduced With AIADMK
Chennai:
The BJP has elected Nainar Nagenthiran because the President of its Tamil Nadu unit.
Mr Nagendran, a three-time MLA from Tirunelveli, replaces Okay Annamalai within the prime job and his first job will probably be to jumpstart the occasion’s fortunes in subsequent yr’s Meeting election – in a state that has traditionally at all times rejected the BJP and its model of muscular nationalism.
His job will presumably be made simpler by the occasion additionally saying a renewed alliance with the primary opposition within the state – the AIADMK. Mr Nagendran is a former member of that occasion; he received the Tirunelveli seat in 2001 and 2011 on an AIADMK ticket earlier than he switched camps.
It has been extensively speculated that eradicating Mr Annamalai as head of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit was a non-negotiable for the AIADMK to return to the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance.
Mr Annamalai and the Dravidian occasion have a hostile relationship; the BJP chief has overtly questioned the necessity to ally with the AIADMK and, in response to the latter, publicly defamed its iconic previous leaders, together with ex-chief ministers J Jayalalithaa and MG Ramachandran.
Nevertheless, BJP sources have advised NDTV Mr Annamalai will probably be reassured the occasion doesn’t view his ‘sacking’ as punishment, however a part of an try and broaden its footprint within the state. He can even be advised a much bigger function should await him, both within the occasion or on the centre.
Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, who introduced the renewed alliance with the AIADMK, underlined these soothing phrases for Mr Annamalai in an X put up, hailing the Tamil chief’s “commendable accomplishments” in serving to the occasion develop within the southern state.
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In the meantime, Mr Shah additionally performed down discuss that the tie-up with the AIADMK will hamper the BJP in any means, ought to the 2 events handle to upset Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian applecart.
Renewal of the alliance got here with no circumstances or strings connected, he mentioned.
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“AIADMK had no circumstances and calls for (and) we won’t intervene of their inside issues… this alliance goes to be useful for each NDA and AIADMK,” the BJP chief mentioned.
The BJP and AIADMK allied for the 2019 common and 2021 Meeting polls however the alliance flopped.
In 2019 the BJP was routed and the AIADMK received certainly one of 39 seats, because the DMK, the Congress, and its allies claimed the remaining 38. And in 2021 the DMK’s alliance swept 159 of the state’s 234 Meeting constituencies, an enchancment of 61 from 5 years earlier.
After which, in 2023, the 2 events break up, principally over continued barbs from Okay Annamalai, whose feedback led to hypothesis the BJP was making an attempt to engineer the break up to carve out its personal house.
That did not prove very effectively; neither the AIADMK (and its allies) nor the BJP (and the few Tamil events it managed to win over) received a seat within the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
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