Chennai: State BJP President K Annamalai said that he saw only a victory for his party in the results of the Lok Sabha elections as the vote share in the State had gone up to 11.4 percent and the party had embedded its name firmly in 23 the constituencies that it contested.
Addressing a well-attended media conference at the party headquarters, Kamalalayam, in Chennai, he said that even he had polled about 4.5 lakh votes in Coimbatore, which was a triumph by itself as the party was once ridiculed as one competing with NOTA (‘None Of The Above’ column in the ballot).
Referring to the break with the AIADMK, he said it helped the BJP to prove its mettle as a political force that did not need the buttress of a Dravidian party in the State and had given them the confidence of winning the 2026 Assembly polls.
He claimed that the vote share of the DMK had come down to 26 per cent in the latest elections from the earlier 33.5 percent and even the AIADMK’s vote share had declined from 38 per cent to 36 per cent.
By becoming the Prime Minister of the country for the third consecutive term, Narendra Modi had create history after Jawaharlal Nehru, which was not an easy task, he said, adding that the BJP alone had won 240 seats as against the total seats bagged by the entire INDIA coalition comprising 28 parties, which stood at 231.
He also had a word of praise for the Naam Tamizhar Katchi (NTK), led by Seeman, for facing the polls alone with no allies, no money power and a new strategy. Though Seeman, during the hustings, had challenged the BJP and promised to dissolve his party if its vote share went below that of the BJP, Annamalai wished the party all success and wanted it to continue in politics.
