Overview
- Nainar Nagendran said the BJP sees no need to destabilize the AIADMK and has accepted Edappadi K. Palaniswami as the alliance’s leader in the state.
- He indicated a willingness to speak with O. Panneerselvam and T.T.V. Dhinakaran, noting that Dhinakaran’s push to change the NDA’s chief ministerial face is only his view.
- Questions over BJP involvement resurfaced after K. A. Sengottaiyan met Amit Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman, a meeting Nagendran said he had no details about.
- Sengottaiyan told reporters he discussed AIADMK unification in Delhi, a move an AIADMK leader criticized as insulting to EPS after Sengottaiyan’s removal from party posts.
- The report notes that Amit Shah brought EPS back into the NDA in April, whereas OPS and Dhinakaran left the alliance in July and August.