NEW DELHI, Jan 30: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will contest the Tamil Nadu state Assembly elections, expected in the next few months, in alliance with the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), the BJP national president JP Nadda announced on Saturday.
While other details are awaited, the development was on the expected lines as the BJP and the AIADMK had remained an alliance partner for many years ever since their principal rivals the Congress and DMK forged alliance more than two decades back. The Tamil Nadu electorate has always thrown up the DMK or the AIADMK as the ruling party with no other party has ever been able to occupy the office since 1967 when for the first time the DMK assumed power unseating the Congress.
(Manas Dasgupta)
