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Former BJP leader and former IPS officer K. Annamalai is preparing for his next political step with his movement, We The Leaders. Four months after quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party, Annamalai announced that the platform will contest the upcoming urban local body elections in Tamil Nadu, followed by the assembly elections. The development marks his first electoral test since leaving the party, testing whether his grassroots campaign can translate into political capital. The report also highlights his earlier observations regarding governance in Tamil Nadu and his criticism concerning the dropped Parandur Airport project.

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00:00There have been a lot of questions about the former BJP leader K. Anna Malay and his next political move.
00:05Remember he started a movement called We the Leaders.
00:08Well it's all set to take its political plunge and its first electoral test will be the civic polls which
00:14is a few months from now.
00:17This will be the first big test for Anna Malay on whether he can prove himself after having left the
00:22BJP.
00:22Here's a detailed report.
00:26Four months after quitting the BJP, former IPS officer K. Anna Malay is gearing up for his next political move.
00:33The man once known as Tamil Nadu BJP Singham is now taking his We the Leaders campaign into the electoral
00:41arena.
00:42With civic body polls around the corner, Anna Malay has announced that his platform will contest the elections, marking a
00:50crucial test for his political experiment.
00:53As the leaders of the country will comment to wind up and invite each other to follow the EU's current
01:00party.
01:00That is how we will talk about the Tamil Nadu is and how we will talk about the EU's current
01:04party.
01:04It was a lot of the discussion due to the NK1 people.
01:09In the future, we will bring the EU's current party to the EU's current party to the EU.
01:17This is a possibility for us to talk about the EU's current parties and it is the opportunity to discuss
01:18the EU's current party.
01:22Annamalai's electoral ambitions come months after he praised
01:26Chief Minister Vijay's governance during the first 100 days
01:29of the TVK government at India Today's Tamil Nadu conclave.
01:34100 days of the TVK government that we're marking with this round table.
01:38What do you think of Chief Minister Vijay's performance so far, Mr. Annamalai?
01:43It's a very fresh breath that has come into Tamil Nadu politics after a long time.
01:48And normally in Tamil Nadu culture for a long time, we have seen people falling at each
01:53other's feet and having photos and all waistees having uniform, shirt having uniform, even
02:01your handkerchief having uniform.
02:03We were making a mockery of Tamil Nadu politics for a long, long time by doing all these kinds
02:07of nonsense.
02:08Positive thing I'm seeing, this government is genuinely against corruption that I'm seeing,
02:12I'm hearing, I'm also observing with a lot of our contracts.
02:16He has since then taken aim at the TVK government for dropping the Parandoor airport project.
02:23Tamil Nadu's political landscape is already witnessing a churn and Annamalai's next move
02:28adds another dimension to the contest.
02:31Can Annamalai translate his campaign into an electoral movement and turn his grassroots pitch
02:37into political capital?
02:39The answers could shape the next chapter of Annamalai's politics.
02:43Annamalai's politics, Bureau Report, India Today.

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