A rift months in the making: Why Annamalai is walking away from BJP

NEW DELHI: K Annamalai's decision to submit his resignation to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have stunned many supporters, but for those tracking Tamil Nadu politics closely, the signs had been visible for months. Once projected as the BJP's most prominent face in the state and credited with expanding the party's footprint, the former IPS officer had increasingly found himself on the margins of the organisation he helped build.