EPS kicks off AIADMK campaign for 2026 polls

AIADMK general secretary and Leader of Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday kick-started his campaign for the 2026 Assembly election from Coimbatore by challenging the DMK's main criticism of his party's alliance with the BJP.

- S SENTHIL KUMAR @Coimbatore

Pointing to the DMK's past alliances with the BJP (in 1999 and 2001), he asked how the national party was considered good when it suited the DMK and communal with AIADMK made an alliance with it and said the alliance had been made to defeat the enemy.

Beginning his campaign well ahead of his rivals after offering prayers at the Vanabadrakali Amman temple at Mettupalayam, he took part in a road show on the Mettupalayam to Ooty road and addressed a public meeting alongside BJP TN president Nainar Nagendran, Minister of State for Information Broadcasting L Murugan, and former AIADMK minister SP Velumani, at Mettupalayam bus stand.