Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president Okay. Annamalai Friday issued a clarification on a property that he had bought in Coimbatore, after land registration paperwork went viral on social media, fuelling hypothesis about his funds.

Within the clarification letter he has put up within the social media platform X, he stated that the land he has bought in Coimbatore was his “first immovable asset” and that every one procedures have been clear. He additionally says he had used household financial savings and a financial institution mortgage to purchase the property, and that he had paid Rs 40.59 lakh as stamp responsibility and registration payment.

He additionally stated he had utilized for a mortgage below the Prime Minister’s Employment Technology Programme (PMEGP) to ascertain a dairy farm on the property.

Social media handles had alleged that Annamalai had bought land in Coimbatore by means of questionable funds and tried to cover the transaction.

Annamalai’s clarification comes at a time when there’s hypothesis that he’s being sidelined by his occasion’s excessive command.

As soon as projected because the BJP’s vibrant face of Tamil Nadu, Annamalai was changed in April 2025 as state president, a day after AIADMK struck a proper take care of the BJP to hitch the NDA alliance.

Though there was hypothesis that AIADMK leaders had steered his removing as one of many preconditions to hitch the NDA, Union House Minister Amit Shah had dismissed it. “Annamalai can be given an acceptable function on the nationwide stage,” Amit Shah stated in a press meet in Tamil Nadu in April 2024.

Nevertheless, that has not occurred but.

On the India As we speak media conclave held final week in Coimbatore, Annamalai stated that whereas the BJP would favor to contest alone in Tamil Nadu, ‘…the fact is that the BJP can not kind the federal government by itself in 2026”. He added that the alliance with AIADMK was a “pragmatic transfer”.

Stating that the speedy aim was to take away DMK from energy, he asserted that AIADMK normal secretary Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami was the NDA’s chief ministerial candidate. “We’re totally dedicated to the alliance with AIADMK. We’ll give our full effort to make sure EPS turns into the chief minister,” he stated on the conclave.

(Edited by Viny Mishra)

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