Annamalai Withdraws From Tamil Nadu BJP Chief Race, Says Will Select Leader Unanimously

Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said on Friday that the party would choose a leader unanimously for the state’s BJP chief position and clarified that he was not in the race.

“There is no contest in Tamil Nadu BJP, we will select a leader unanimously. But I am not in the race. I am not in the BJP state leadership race,” Annamalai said while speaking to the media in Coimbatore, ANI reported.

Annamalai is a former IPS officer from the 2011 Karnataka batch and joined the BJP in August 2020. He was appointed as state president within ten months.