Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections this year, a number of leaders from Tamil Nadu, including 15 former MLAs and an ex-MP, joined the BJP on Wednesday in Delhi.
Most of these leaders are from the AIADMK, a former BJP ally in the state. Former AIADMK leaders, including K Vadivel, MV Rathnam, R Chinnaswamy, and PS Kandasamy, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai.
They have been seeing happenings in Tamil Nadu, he said in an apparent swipe at the state's ruling DMK and its main rival AIADMK.
"Tamil Nadu is going the Bharatiya Janata Party way," claimed the state BJP chief.
Chandrasekhar said the joining at such a big scale shows Modi's popularity in a state like Tamil Nadu, where the BJP has traditionally been not a big force.
Noting that Modi has projected that the BJP will win 370 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha and the NDA will cross 400, he claimed that many of these new seats will come from Tamil Nadu.
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