Amid his claims of resigning from BJP if the party decides to align with AIADMK, Tamil Nadu BJP chief Annamalai on Sunday said that pampering voters with multiple gifts couldn't bring clean governance in decades.
He further said that the influence of money in assembly elections in Tamil Nadu has become unsustainable. "The level of influence of money in Tamil Nadu elections is becoming unsustainable, we cannot have elections like this. Pampering voters with multiple money and gifts couldn't bring clean governance in decades," said Annamalai as quoted by news agency ANI.
Rattled by the back-to-back resignations of party functionaries who went on to join the AIADMK, Annamalai earlier lashed out at his ally, as per a PTI report. Accusing the AIADMK of poaching BJP leaders, he tweeted: "If I decide to go shopping (poaching), my shopping list will be big. But the time and venue, I will decide".
He also said that the presence of a former Chief Minister, while second-, third-, fourth-, and fifth-level BJP leaders were joining the AIADMK was a message that the BJP has grown in Tamil Nadu. Earlier the BJP used to poach from the Dravidian parties for it to grow, but presently Dravidian parties were poaching from the BJP for their growth, he alleged.
In a statement on Twitter, he said, "Before the Kurukshetra war, people were allowed to change camps. The war which will start in a few months from now, let everyone take positions."
The former IPS officer said that his aim was to bring his party to power in Tamil Nadu, adding that he was not a BJP manager but a BJP leader.
(With PTI inputs)