AIADMK exiting won't make any difference, PM Modi-led NDA will form government in 2024: Anurag Thakur

Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls irrespective of which party allies with it. His comments came as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) announced that it will end its alliance with BJP on Monday.

“BJP has taken along its allies like a family. Many parties like JD(S) are also joining (NDA). The NDA was strong in 2014 as well as 2019, and both times, it formed the government (at the Centre) with full majority. PM Modi-led NDA will form the government in 2024 too,” Thakur said.

VIDEO | “BJP has taken along its allies like a family. Many parties like JD(S) are also joining (NDA). The NDA was strong in 2014 as well as 2019, and both times, it formed the government (at the Centre) with full majority. PM Modi-led NDA will form the government in 2024 too,”… pic.twitter.com/pC4ze72lGr

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The AIADMK has announced that it will lead a state-level coalition, setting in motion a three-cornered fight between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, I.N.D.I.A and BJP.

The formal break-up was announced by AIADMK Deputy General Secretary KP Munusamy after a resolution was passed unanimously at a meeting of MPs, MLAs and district heads at the party’s headquarters in Chennai. After the news emerged, party workers celebrated by setting off firecrackers.

A senior AIADMK leader at that meeting told news agency PTI that discussions were “smooth and cordial”, but remarks by the BJP’s M Chakravarthy told a different story.

The resolution, without naming anyone, said the BJP’s state leadership has been of late defaming Dravidian stalwart, the late CN Annadurai and late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, besides criticising its policies.

Meanwhile, last week Janata Dal (Secular) forged an alliance with BJP in the presence of HD Kumaraswamy and JP Nadda.