All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief on Wednesday said that his party’s newly-formed alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party was only for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Deccan Herald reported. There would be no coalition government if the alliance wins the polls, he added.

Palaniswami’s remarks came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the BJP and the AIADMK would contest the Assembly in an alliance.

Speaking at a press conference in Chennai alongside Palaniswami, Shah said the two parties would fight the polls as part of the National Democratic Alliance under Palaniswami’s leadership.

“AIADMK and BJP leaders have decided that AIADMK, BJP and all the alliance parties will contest the upcoming Vidhan Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu together as NDA,” Shah said.

He added that the AIADMK had not made demands or placed conditions for reviving the alliance.

This marked a renewed partnership between the BJP and AIADMK, who have had a turbulent alliance history.

On Wednesday, Palaniswami told reporters that the two parties would fight the elections together.

However, on a question about why the AIADMK agreed to form a government with the BJP, Deccan Herald quoted the former chief minister as saying: “He [Shah] never said it will be a coalition government. You people have misunderstood what he said...