Tamil Nadu Today: Annamalai quits BJP to start new political movement

Published 12 June 2026 · local

1. TVK allots Rajya Sabha seat to Congress for bypoll Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay announced that

1. TVK allots Rajya Sabha seat to Congress for bypoll Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay announced that the party has allocated to its ally the Congress, the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Tamil Nadu, for which bypolls are scheduled to be held on June 18. The seat fell vacant following the resignation of AIADMK leader C. Ve. Shanmugam who was elected as MLA from the Mailam constituency in Villupuram district in the recent Assembly elections. 2. Annamalai quits BJP, to start new political movement Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai has quit the party and is expected to start a “movement” that would eventually be converted into a regional political party. Sources told The Hindu that Mr. Annamalai submitted his resignation letter to the party leadership yesterday (June 2) and had meetings with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president Nitin Nabin, and national general secretary of the party B.L. Santhosh.

3. Koyambedu flyover hit-and-run case: Injured minor girl dies The 17-year-old girl who was undergoing treatment after being run over by a group of men with an SUV following a brawl at a private bar in Chennai’s Koyambedu last week died, taking the death toll in the case to two. An 18-year-old woman from a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee camp had died in the incident on May 30. 4. Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal assumes office as T.N. DGP After months of delays caused by litigation and repeated postponements, Tamil Nadu has finally got a regular Director General of Police and Head of Police Force (DGP/HoPF). Today, Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, a 1994-batch IPS officer, assumed charge as the DGP/HoPF of the Tamil Nadu police, nearly 10 months after the vacancy arose.

5. Madras HC declares Appavu elected from Radhapuram constituency in 2016 Assembly polls The Madras High Court allowed an election petition filed by former Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu of DMK in 2016 and set aside the election of his rival candidate I.S. Inbadurai of AIADMK from Radhapuram Assembly constituency in Tirunelveli district that year. The judge directed the Assembly Secretary to substitute the name of Mr. Appavu as the MLA of the constituency between 2016 and 2021. Although the votes were recounted in the Madras High Court premises in 2019, the result was not declared due to an interim stay order passed by the Supreme Court following an appeal preferred by Mr. Inbadurai. After the disposal of the appeal, the High Court proceeded with the hearing of the election petition and allowed it.