India, March 26 -- A decision on forging an alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu will be taken closer to the 2026 assembly elections, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, or EPS, said on Wednesday, a day after he met Union home minister Amit Shah late on Tuesday.

Palaniswami insisted that he only discussed problems faced by people and sought the central government's intervention to solve them, and not the contours of an alliance at his meeting with Amit Shah.

The AIADMK had broken up with the BJP in September 2023, accusing the Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai of insulting their leaders and Dravidian stalwarts including J Jayalalithaa. B...