Tamil Nadu: The AIADMK and the BJP battle over the role of the main opposition.

There are rumblings of unhappiness inside the AIADMK about the saffron party’s attempt to play the stronger opposition, with the ruling DMK and the BJP occupying political centre stage in recent months.

Senior leader C Ponnaiyan ripped into the BJP at a party gathering in Chennai on Tuesday, labelling it anti-Tamil and pushing party members to “expose the national party through sustain the AIADMK’s status as the leading opposition party in the social media.