What happened
After being sidelined as Tamil Nadu BJP chief in April 2025 — because his habit of saying accurate things about alliance partners was causing diplomatic inconvenience — K. Annamalai spent thirteen months deciding his next move. He announced his resignation from BJP on June 2, then launched his new People's Power Movement on June 4, which happened to be his birthday. The party's website is already live, banners have appeared in Coimbatore, and the political framework reportedly borrows from Dravidian ideology — the very tradition Annamalai had positioned himself against for years. BJP has responded with the strategic silence of an organisation watching a very loud colleague leave through a very loud door.