BJP Calls Sengottaiyan Joining TVK 'A Duryodhana Mistake' Predicts Collapse
AIADMK Veteran defects to TVK, instantly branded “Mahabharata-level blunder” by BJP.
Tamil Nadu BJP President Nainar Nagendran on Wednesday compared former AIADMK heavyweight KA Sengottaiyan’s defection to actor Vijay’s Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) to the epic miscalculation of “Duryodhana joining the wrong team”, warning that such high-profile but directionless switches would only accelerate the newcomer party’s inevitable electoral downfall in the 2026 Assembly polls.
Dismissing the significance of the induction with calculated contempt, Annamalai repeatedly emphasised that despite aggressive poaching of disgruntled leaders, TVK remains a political entity without a single elected councillor, panchayat member, or MLA to its name, arguing that mere celebrity glamour and borrowed cadres cannot substitute for organisational depth or grassroots presence in Tamil Nadu’s fiercely competitive political landscape.
Riding a wave of confidence, the BJP state chief declared that a tectonic shift in public mood was already underway across the state, drawing direct parallels with the dramatic anti-incumbency wave that recently reshaped Bihar, and boldly predicted that the National Democratic Alliance would storm to power in Tamil Nadu within months, rendering TVK’s ambitions irrelevant before they could fully materialise.
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KA Sengottaiyan, a towering six-time MLA from Gobichettipalayam and a minister in multiple AIADMK governments spanning nearly five decades, abruptly resigned from the Assembly on 26 November 2025, days after the Edappadi Palaniswami-led party leadership stripped him of primary membership in what he publicly described as an act of “extreme pain and humiliation”, paving the way for his high-profile induction into TVK at a grand ceremony in Chennai on 27 November 2025, with Vijay personally administering the oath.
Speaking emotionally at the TVK headquarters, the 77-year-old leader invoked nostalgia-heavy parallels with the AIADMK’s early struggles under MG Ramachandran, reminding the audience how he had stood firmly with the matinee idol-turned-Chief Minister when detractors mocked that the party would collapse within 100 days, before lamenting the post-Jayalalithaa fragmentation of AIADMK into warring factions and delivering a stinging indictment that the present-day AIADMK and ruling DMK had effectively converged into a single indistinguishable entity with no ideological differentiation left between them.
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