Chennai, Oct. 13 -- Chennai: Launching a statewide yatra from the temple town of Madurai ahead of the 2026 assembly election, Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagendran on Sunday predicted that the countdown has started for the removal of the ruling DMK from power and the NDA forming the government with AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) as the Chief Minister.

"From now on the countdown has started for the ouster of the DMK government. The NDA will wrest power and form the government with EPS as Chief Minister," he told reporters before commencing his mass outreach campaign, christened 'Yatra for Tamil Nadu hold its Head high'. As the face of the dominant OBC Thevar community for the saffron party, this is his first mass ...