BJP should back Annamalai's new party. A subsidiary model for double engine

Key points

• K Annamalai, the turbocharged engine for the BJP's growth in Tamil Nadu, is moving out of the party's chassis.
• The differences were more on strategy than on ideology.
• This is exactly why it opens up an option for the BJP to try a subsidiary model in a state where its Hindi-Hindutva identity has made its nationalism-development plank slide against the Tamil sub-nationalism wall.
• Why not have a wholly owned subsidiary with a completely different identity for a double-engine government?
• Annamalai is the BJP's very own.