ENDING its four year-old ties with the BJP, the AIADMK on Monday announced walking out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and said it would lead a separate front for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The decision to break away from the NDA was taken at a high level meeting chaired by party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami at the AIADMK headquarters here. The decision was met with cheers from the Dravidian party workers who burst crackers outside the headquarters here.

 

The move to call it quits comes days after senior AIADMK leaders called on BJPchief J P Nadda in New Delhiand apprised him about theground situation in the Statearising out of BJP’s Tamil Naduchief K Annamalai’s aggressivestyle of politics. They had then soughtAnnamalai’s apology for making a remark on Dravidian stalwart CN Annadurai or that hebe replaced. Briefing reporters onMonday’s deliberations, former Minister and senior leaderK P Munusamy said the partyhas unanimously adopted aresolution to part ways withthe NDA and steer a combineof like-minded parties in nextyear’s polls