'Can't make person stay in party with gun to head': Annamalai 's unhappiness comes to fore as patience wears thin Annamalai was replaced by Nainar Nagendran, a former AIADMK minister, as the BJP ... K. Annamalai is the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu and a former 2011 batch IPS officer from the Tamil Nadu cadre. He resigned from the IPS in 2019 and contested the 2021 assembly election from Aravakurichi constituency, but lost to DMK's NR Elango. Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai is unlikely to contest the 2026 Assembly elections in the state, according to sources from the party. The BJP is instead expected to assign him a national-level role ahead of a broader organisational revamp. Former Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) president K Annamalai , on October 31, dismissed reports that he may launch a new political party but indicated that he was conflicted about his ...
