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

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.

"We will decide on the alliance before the election," said senior AIADMK leader D Jayakumar. "Annamalai is unfit to be the BJP's state president… He speaks ill of late leaders only to project himself," he added.

Mr Jayakumar said when Mr Annamalai had made critical remarks about AIADMK leaders including the late J Jayalalithaa, the party had sought that the BJP leader be restrained. The party workers will not tolerate any insult to the late chief minister, he said.