Chennai, Jan. 14 -- Endorsing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami's effective handling of the corona virus pandemic, BJP National President J P Nadda today said if there was no AIADMK there would be no nationalism and spiritualism in the State.

Mr Nadda, who participated in the BJP's pongal festival celebrations and later at the 51st anniversary of Tamil magazine Thugalq, said he was happy to celebrate the Pongal festival in Tamil soil.

Hailing Tamil Nadu as the spiritual soil, he extended his pongal greetings to the people of the State and euologised Saint poet Thiruvalluvar, speaking in Tamil.

Noting that BJP would be the future in Tamil Nadu, Mr Nadda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ensured that the State was ...