BJP IT wing head joins AIADMK, insinuates Annamalai is working against the party
The Hindu
Annamalai is secretly bargaining with a Minister, charges Nirmal Kumar
BJP Tamil Nadu IT cell and social media unit president C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar on March 5, 2023 quit the party and joined the AIADMK in the presence of its interim general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami in Chennai.
In a statement, he insinuated that BJP president K. Annamalai was working against the interests of the party and was “secretly bargaining with a Minister”. He did not substantiate the charge or mention either Mr. Annamalai or the Minister by name but made it clear that his angst was against the State unit’s leadership.
“I encountered many embarrassments over the past year and a half to the extent possible. I worked honestly but only regrets remain. Adieu,” he said on Twitter.
In a letter, Mr. Kumar said the BJP State leadership used the workers and the party as “footwear” and “spied on” its own functionaries and workers. He said the leadership used the party and the State unit head office for “commercial means”.
Accusing the leadership of leading the party towards destruction, he said, “The party’s structure today is not even 20% of what it used to be in 2019. The person, who is not bothered about it and living in a dream world, could never realise the field reality.”
Mr. Kumar claimed many like him attempted in vain to make the leadership realise the charges. “Above all, while I am waging a legal struggle with a Minister, how can I be with someone [the BJP leadership] who speaks strongly against the Minister in public but secretly bargains with the Minister?”
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