NEW DELHI: AIADMK normal secretary and Tamil Nadu’s former CM Edappadi Ok Palaniswami reached Union house minister Amit Shah’s residence in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Palaniswami’s go to to Shah’s home comes at a time when rumours are rife that ex-allies might come collectively to battle meeting polls subsequent yr.
In September 2023, the AIADMK made a decisive break because it severed ties with the BJP, ending an alliance that had been riddled with pressure. AIADMK leaders have been reportedly pissed off with the BJP’s rising ambitions in Tamil Nadu and its leaders’ controversial remarks about Dravidian icons like Periyar.
With the 2024 Lok Sabha elections approaching, AIADMK introduced it could go solo, decided to carve its personal path with out the BJP’s affect. However this wasn’t the primary time their alliance had fallen aside.
In 2019, AIADMK, nonetheless recovering from the loss of life of Jayalalithaa, joined palms with BJP to tackle the rising DMK-Congress entrance. The outcomes have been disastrous—the alliance gained simply 1 seat, whereas the DMK swept Tamil Nadu. Regardless of the setback, AIADMK caught with the BJP for the 2021 Tamil Nadu Meeting elections, the place they misplaced once more, securing solely 75 out of 234 seats. The BJP, a junior accomplice within the coalition, managed to scrape by with 4 seats.
The roots of their alliance go lengthy again to 1998. Below Jayalalithaa’s management, AIADMK first joined forces with the BJP-led NDA. It was a profitable experiment, bringing them 30 out of 39 seats in Tamil Nadu. However inside a yr, Jayalalithaa withdrew help, toppling Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s authorities.
Since then, their relationship had been something however regular. AIADMK stored shifting between alliances and independence, typically partnering with the BJP, typically selecting to face alone.
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