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<\/div>\nAIADMK boss E Palaniswami is a former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister (File).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Tamil Nadu’s AIADMK<\/a> has snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party<\/a> and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance – just months before the national election – amid a row over comments by the latter party’s state boss, K Annamalai.\u00a0The break-up was announced by AIADMK Deputy General Secretary KP Munusamy after a resolution was passed unanimously at a meeting of MPs, MLAs and district heads at the party’s head office in Chennai.<\/p>\n The news was celebrated by party workers setting off firecrackers.<\/p>\n At a meeting in Delhi on Saturday – a last-gasp effort to revive strained ties – the south Indian party stood firm on its demand – that Mr Annamalai either apologise for remarks on the late former Chief Minister CN Annadurai, or be replaced with a “non-controversial leader”.\u00a0Mr Annadurai was the mentor of AIADMK founder MG Ramachandran.<\/p>\n A senior AIADMK leader at that meeting said discussions were “cordial”, but remarks by the BJP’s M Chakravarthy painted a different picture.\u00a0“… leadership does not relish idea of shifting Annamalai as he has been (instrumental in) reviving the party (in Tamil Nadu)… he only made a remark alluding to Annadurai during Sanatan Dharma row.”<\/p>\n READ |<\/strong>AIADMK Delegation Meet BJP Leaders In Delhi Over Rift In Ties In Tamil Nadu<\/a><\/p>\n The AIADMK should not get offended as Annamalai did not criticise the party, he added.<\/p>\n The AIADMK-BJP alliance was on the brink last week after the former party’s D Jayakumar told reporters “we will decide on the alliance before the election”. “Annamalai is unfit to be BJP’s state president. He speaks ill of late leaders only to project himself,” he said.<\/p>\n READ |<\/strong>AIADMK Says No Alliance With BJP Now, Will Decide On Tie-Up Before Polls<\/a><\/p>\n The BJP leader had previously also been critical of the late former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who remains an iconic, almost revered, figure within the AIADMK.\u00a0At the time, the southern party had demanded the state BJP chief be reined in; Mr Annamalai frequently needles both his party’s ally (the only one in the state) and their joint rival, the DMK.<\/p>\n His comments have led to speculation the BJP is trying to engineer space for itself in Tamil Nadu – a state in which it has failed, so far, to make any electoral headway – before next year’s election.<\/p>\n In March, he even spoke out against allying with the AIADMK, leaving senior leaders fuming.<\/p>\n