(From left) Tamilisai Soundararajan, former Telangana Governor, Nainar Nagendran, Tamil Nadu BJP president, J.P. Nadda, former national BJP president, and K. Annamalai, former State BJP president, at the release of the party’s election manifesto in Chennai
| Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan
Former national president of the BJP and Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda on Tuesday (April 14, 2026) alleged that the DMK government had converted Tamil Nadu, a cradle of the world’s oldest civilisation, into a “crime capital.”
Releasing the BJP’s election manifesto for the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, where the party is contesting as a constituent of the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance, Mr. Nadda said every Indian is proud of Tamil Nadu.
Published – April 14, 2026 04:22 pm IST
