CHENNAI:The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Monday officially declared that it is 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 passed in this regard in front of the gathered media persons. The minute after the party made its decision public, the party functionaries, who anticipated the same, celebrated it 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 to this effect 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. This 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.