AIADMK-BJP seat share talks on

EPS and Piyush Goyal discuss TN Assembly election formula for around 90 minutes

- T MURUGANANDHAM @ Chennai

THE AIADMK, which leads the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Tamil Nadu, and the BJP began preliminary talks for the 2026 Assembly elections, including plans for a joint campaign of leaders and assessment of the current political situation in the state.

The talks held at a hotel between the AIADMK team led by general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami and the BJP team led by Piyush Goyal, union minister and BJP's poll incharge for TN, lasted 90 minutes. Goyal met Palaniswami after consulting the office-bearers of the BJP high-level committee at the party headquarters in Chennai.