AIADMK committee ratifies alliance with BJP

The executive committee of the AIADMK on Friday gave its approval to the formation of an alliance with the BJP for the 2026 Assembly election.

A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of the executive held at the party headquarters here.

It was attended by general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, presidium chairman A. Tamilmagan Hussain, and senior functionaries K.P. Munusamy, Natham R. Viswanathan, and Dindigul C. Sreenivasan.

The motion was moved by a group of office-bearers, including organisation secretaries S. Semmalai and T. Rathnavel. Among the notable participants was former Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan, who was said to have differences of opinion with Mr. Palaniswami.

Expressing its wish that the coalition would become a “victorious alliance”, the committee said a front was being formed by like-minded parties to defeat the “common adversary” — the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) — by ensuring that anti-DMK votes did not get split. The committee, which also greeted Mr. Palaniswami for his efforts to forge a “mega alliance”, resolved to make him the Chief Minister again.

The AIADMK welcomed the Centre’s move to hold a caste census, along with the general census, an issue that the party had been pursuing with the Centre for years.

It declared that it would stand by the Central government in its efforts to root out terrorism in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Criticising the DMK government on a variety of issues, the executive called upon the State government to bring out a White Paper on industrial investment that materialised after Chief Minister M.K. Stalin made a couple of foreign visits.