Will AIADMK join forces with the BJP and the BJP before the 2026 Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Election?
Will the party, known for its Dravid identity, join hands with the BJP and as the North-South divide deepens as tensions in trilingual formulas and demarcations grow?
Edappadi Palaniswami, head of AIADMK and PM Narendra Modi (file)
Will Ana Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) of all India join the National Democratic League (NDA) ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Election?
The party is known for its politics as Dravid, working hand in hand with the BJP and also deepening the party at a time when the North-South Divide deepens in the three-language formula and demarcation tensions?
Palaniswami meets with Amit Shah
These problems arose after AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday morning. He will likely meet with Home Minister Amit Shah soon.
If media reports can be trusted, senior leaders of AIADMK SP Velumani and KP Munusamy have also arrived in the national capital.
While both the BJP and the AIADMK are close to the issue, political observers believe leaders on both sides may sit down for preliminary negotiations on the political coalition in the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections.
MK Stalin urges Palaniswamy to discuss bilingual policy
“We have information about the EPS meeting in Delhi. When he met them with them, I urged him to emphasize the bilingual policy,” said MK Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu and DMK leader, at an event in Chennai.
Asked earlier this month about the possibility of joining hands with the BJP, Palaniswami told people to wait for six months.
But six months ago, he had arrived in the national capital for talks with the saffron party.
Political observers believe Palaniswany broke the DMK-BJP alliance in 2023 and he softened his party to the Saffron Party and hoped to join the NDA so that the party can fight Arch-Rival against DMK.
Is BJP-AIADMK talking about deepening the North-South divide?
However, the BJP will be a difficult task for the Dravid party, which is a difficult task for the implementation of the state’s trilingual policy and implementing demarcation.
All four states in southern India oppose the proposed demarcation and believe that it will impose rule in North India and the Kraft State, which will control the entire Indian state through its added seats in the parliament.
Similarly, these states, especially Tamil Nadu, oppose new educational policies and trilingual policies, citing the imposition of Hindi.
The earlier BJP-AIADMK BONHOMIE
However, AIADMK worked with BJP earlier. It first fought with the saffron party after the death of the supreme Jayalalithaa in 2016, and then broke up at the party.
AIADMK suffered a tragic pain in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 and in the 2021 General Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, both polls were swept by its Arch rival The DMK.
It split the way from BJP and withdrew from the NDA in September 2023.
How will AIADMK join forces with the same party ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Election?
