Chennai, April 13 -- DMK leader TKS Elangovan on Sunday expressed surprise over Nainar Nagendran's appointment as Tamil Nadu BJP president, questioning why the party's own rules weren't followed.

While speaking to ANI, he said, "I don't know what happened; they had issued a circular that person should be a member of the party for at least ten years. Then, suddenly, Nainar Nagendran was chosen to lead the party. Maybe he's an MLA. He had won elections, so maybe that's the reason they thought that he has the capacity to lead the party..."

Nagendran's appointment as State President was backed unanimously by senior BJP leaders, including outgoing president K Annamalai. The BJP, alongside its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),...