Tamil Maanila Congress joins NDA ahead of LS polls. Annamalai hails it as sign of BJP's future

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Chennai:The Tamil Maanila Congress has officially joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), months before the general election...

The partys alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes at a time when the AIADMK has snapped its ties with the Narendra Modi-led party and dashed chances for any such alliance in the future...

Vasan is the son of party founder G.K. Moopanar, who made headlines with his refusal to support the BJP in a 1999 trust vote in the Lok Sabha, leading to the fall of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government for want of one vote...

Tamil Maanila Congress was always a different political party, a regional party with nationalism at its coreG.K. Vasan has given confidence to the people of Tamil Nadu today that he foresees a future where more MPs of Tamil Nadu will be part of the NDA, Annamalai later told the press...

Ahead of the 2016 assembly polls, Vasan in a bid to reform the party joined the Peoples Welfare Front (PWF) alliance which included parties like Captain Vijayakanths Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-(M))..

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