Madurai, June 22 -- Lakhs of people from across Tamil Nadu took part in the Lord Muruga devotees conference organised by the Hindu Munnani and the BJP in the temple town of Madurai on Sunday evening.

Apart from Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, who is the Chief guest, all top BJP leaders from Tamil Nadu, and leaders of AIADMK, which is now in NDA in the state after reviving the ties with the saffron party for the upcoming Assembly polls, were in attendance at the conference.

BJP State President Nainar Nagendran, his predecessor and National Governing Council member K Annamalai, BJP MLAs, senior functionaries and office-bearers of all the districts took part in the event, which the BJP billed purely as a spiritual gathe...