Madurai, Sept. 6 -- Days after Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam quit the NDA alliance in Tamil Nadu, its chief, TTV Dhinakaran, raised questions over the competence of current BJP state chief Nainar Nagendran in handling the coalition, which he believed was "handled properly" by former BJP chief Annamalai.

"The BJP state president may have thought that our party is small. As long as Annamalai was the BJP state president, the alliance was handled properly. But Nainar Nagendran does not know how to handle the alliance properly," Dhinakaran said in a press conference.

However, Dhinakaran clarified that AMMK decided to quit the alliance because of the demand of its own cadres and not because of Nainar Nagendran.

"Our decision to leave the all...