Chennai: While its alliance partner, the AIADMK, has announced Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami as the Chief Minister candidate, the Bharatiya Janata Party is apparently exploring options with just months left for Tamilnadu Assembly elections.
Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan has said that the party’s alliance with the AIADMK was only for the Lok Sabha polls.
Radhakrishnan said the BJP’s alliance for the Assembly polls could be with the AIADMK. Or it could be with the DMK, or we can form an alliance on our own. There is a possibility for everything, he added.
Reacting to it, DMK treasurer T R Baalu said, “the DMK’s alliance decision has to be taken only by the DMK president, M K Stalin, not by others”.
Radhakrishnan, while reacting to the developments in the AIADMK, said “This has thwarted the expectations of those who were waiting to take political advantage of the differences of opinion among the AIADMK leaders. I congratulate Palaniswami on his being elected as CM candidate and I also greet Panneerselvam who has taken the decision.”
Asked whether Palaniswami could be projected as the Chief Minsiter candidate of the AIADMK-led alliance, Radhakrishnan said, “That could be decided at the time of elections. But I am sure in 2021 Assembly elections, whichever party allies with the BJP will form the government in Tamilnadu.”