Chennai, June 27 -- There is a sense of unease in the principal opposition AIADMK after Union Home Minister and saffron strategist Amit Shah skipped mentioning AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) as the chief ministerial face of the alliance and reiterating yet again that it would be a coalition government in the Dravidian heartland.

This is the second time that Shah made it clear that it would be an NDA government in which the BJP too will share power. He had made a similar statement while addressing the party's core group meeting in Madurai on June 8, which caused tremors in the AIADMK, which has repeatedly ruled out the idea of a coalition government as unsuitable for Tamil Nadu.

In an interview to a Tamil daily, Shah...