BJP accepts Tamil Nadu ex-chief K Annamalai’s resignation
Annamalai will at make his future political plans public today
Ahead of K Annamalai’s press interaction at 12 noon today to announce separation from the BJP, the party has accepted his resignation.
In an official statement issued today, the BJP said party president Nitin Nabin had accepted the resignation of the former Tamil Nadu state unit chief.
Annamalai will at make his future political plans public today.
Also, he becomes the first senior leader to quit the BJP, citing lack of future in the party.
The former top cop from Tamil Nadu, locally popular as Singham, had joined the BJP in August 2020 after taking voluntary retirement from IPS.
He quickly rose to become the Tamil Nadu BJP president.
Annamalai was widely credited with rejuvenating the party on the ground and spreading its saffron and Sanatan ideology across the Dravidian land.
But in April 2025, the BJP replaced him with Nainar Nagendran after the AIADMK put a condition that it would only join the NDA if Annamalai was ousted as state president.
Since then, Annamalai had been keeping a low profile in the BJP.
He did not contest the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu where the BJP won just one seat in a 234 member Assembly.
Annamalai was in Delhi earlier this week to meet BJP chief Nitin Nabin and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The BJP's attempts to get him to stay appear to have failed.
