AIADMK ‘calls off’ BJP alliance, may revisit later

After days of sparring with the BJP state unit president K Annamalai over his remarks against Dravida Kazhagam founder and social reformist ‘Periyar’ E V Ramasamy, DMK founder C N Annadurai, and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, the AIADMK on Monday announced that its alliance with the saffron party was “off as of today”. Former AIADMK minister and close EPS associate D Jayakumar told reporters in Chennai, “It will be decided closer to elections. It may or may not be. That’s the AIADMK’s stand.”