Chennai: Newly-appointed Tamil Nadu BJP chief K. Annamalai has raked up a controversy by stating that the party would control the media in the state in six months' time. The former IPS officer, who joined the BJP recently and is set to replace L. Murugan as Tamil Nadu BJP chief, was addressing a public meeting at Trichy on Thursday en route Chennai where he will assume office as the party's state unit president on Friday.
Annamalai said that the media in Tamil Nadu has been criticising the BJP unnecessarily and the party would control the media in six months' time. Amid applause from party cadres, the newly-appointed state unit chief said that his predecessor Murugan is now the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting. He said the media has been attacking the BJP in the state continuously, without any substance.
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K Annamalai, who was newly-appointed state president of the Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP, will take charge at the Tamil Nadu BJP party office on Friday. He was on a two-day trip which started from his hometown Coimbatore. According to media reports, Annamalai has flouted the Covid norms in his roadshows which he helmed at his home town Coimbatore.
He asserted that his party is the only political party with a strong ideological base. He assured his party cadres in Tirupur that the party will take charge in the state soon.
(With inputs from IANS)