New Delhi, April 1 -- K Annamalai may step down as Bharatiya Janata Party's Tamil Nadu president amid talks of a BJP-AIADMK alliance for next year's assembly elections.

The move would be considering caste equations, a report in the Indian Express said. Annamalai is considered one of the main reasons behind the AIADMK and BJP falling apart in 2023.

The Indian Express report said that the BJP does not want to have faces of both ally partners from the same Gounder community. Both Annamalai and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief Edappadi K Palaniswami belong to the powerful backward community. Both come from the same western Kongu region of Tamil Nadu where Gounders are dominant.

Annamalai has been conveyed the BJP dec...