TN: Annamalai quits BJP, announces new political party

The former BJP leader said he quit the party with dignity and would soon launch a new political outfit with an inclusive agenda in Tamil Nadu.

Chennai: K Annamalai, who quit the BJP on Friday, June 5, said his goals are bigger and that he would launch a new political party with an inclusive agenda and fight the next polls in Tamil Nadu.

In a social media address, Annamalai, who had been with the BJP for about six years, said: “I have quit the BJP in a dignified manner, to usher in a new kind of politics.”

The goals are bigger, and more people have to be taken along and “from today onwards, a new path, a new movement, a new political movement,’ he said, adding a new party would be launched which would fight the next polls in the state.

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The new movement proposed to be launched must, from the foundation level, have new dimensions and a new perspective, he said.

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