New Delhi: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Friday announced that his party will contest the Assembly Elections in Tamil Nadu in alliance with the AIADMK. He added that the alliance will contest the election under Edappadi K Palaniswami.
During the press conference, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that AIADMK and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been contesting elections together since the time of Jayalalithaa and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. i
“We have been fighting together since 1998, from the time of Jayalalithaa ji and Atal ji. At one time, both of us fought 30 out of 39 seats in Lok Sabha,” said Amit Shah.
“AIADMK and BJP and other allies will fight the Tamil Nadu assembly elections together. This election will be fought under the leadership of Narendra Modi at the national level and under the leadership of Edappadi Palanisami at the state level,”added Shah.
When asked whether O Panneerselvam will also be part of the alliance, the Home Minister added, ” This is the internal matter of the AIADMK. We won’t interfere with the party’s interference in the matter.”
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