Team News Riveting
Chennai, September 25
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Monday officially announced that it was ending its five-year alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and quitting the saffron party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Senior AIADMK leader and former minister K P Munusamy read out the resolution before the media that was passed after the meeting. The minute after the party made its decision public, the party functionaries celebrated the event by bursting crackers and sweets in front of the party headquarters.
Squarely blaming state BJP leader K Annamalai as the reason for the decision, the party leadership passed the resolution that was passed unanimously. “For the last one year, the state president of BJP has been intentionally speaking ill against our party leaders C N Annadurai and J Jayalalithaa with an ulterior motive,” said the resolution. He also continued to make disparaging remarks against AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami.
It infuriated the party cadres and functionaries. Following this, the party has convened a district secretaries and senior level functionaries meeting. They have anonymously passed a resolution to exit the alliance with the BJP and the NDA from today, the resolution further said.
According to media reports, several District Secretaries of the AIADMK had suggested that the party should stand strong with its decision of breaking ties with the NDA government. The decision comes just days after former AIADMK ministers including SP Velumani, P Thangamani, C Ve Shanmugam and Natham R Viswanathan met the BJP national president JP Nadda and discussed the strained alliance with the BJP.
