AIADMK Says No Alliance With BJP Now, Will Decide On Tie-Up Before Polls | Read

The AIADMK-BJP alliance is off for now, the Tamil Nadu party announced today, furious over state BJP chief K Annamalai's comments on the late CN Annadurai, the mentor of AIADMK founder MGR, after whom the party has been named. "We will decide on the alliance before the election," said AIADMK leader D Jayakumar, underscoring that he was voicing the party's stance on the issue. "Annamalai is unfit to be the BJP's state president... He speaks ill of late leaders only to project himself," said Mr Jayakumar, referring to the state BJP chief's comments about party icon J Jayalalithaa that brought the alliance to a breaking point in June.