AIADMK breaks alliance with BJP; to lead a separate front for 2024 Lok Sabha polls
BJP), the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Monday said that it has broken all ties with the NDA alliance.
The decision to break away from the NDA was taken at a high level meeting chaired by party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami at the AIADMK headquarters in Chennai.
Briefing reporters on the deliberations, former Minister and senior leader K P Munusamy said the party has unanimously resolved to part ways with the NDA and steer a combine of like-minded parties in the next year's polls.
The resolution, without naming anyone, said the BJP's state leadership has been of late defaming Dravidian stalwart, the late CN Annadurai and late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, besides criticising its policies.
«AIADMK unanimously passed a resolution in the meeting. AIADMK is breaking all ties with BJP and NDA alliance from today.
The state leadership of the BJP has been continuously making unnecessary remarks about our former leaders, our general secretary EPS and our cadres for the past one year,» K P Munusamy, AIADMK Deputy Coordinator said.
The major cause of the rift between two parties was Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai's controversial comments on former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravidian icon CN Annadurai.
Annamalai's remarks caused a big controversy after he alleged that Annadurai insulted Hinduism at an event in Madurai in 1956. The BJP leader had also alleged that Annadurai had to hide in Madurai after those remarks, and he managed to escape only after issuing an apology.
Top party office-bearers, district secretaries and MLAs and MPs took part in the AIADMK meet.
Amid bursting of crackers at the party headquarters here, Munsamy said the unanimous decision honours the sentiments and aspirations of over
