Moments after declaring his formal exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), K. Annamalai sought to rebrand himself as a “common citizen”, aspiring to bring decisive and transformational change in Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian-dominated politics. 

Annamalai, having emerged as the most popular face of BJP in the run-up to Assembly elections, updated his profile on X and described himself as: “A common man in search of good politics!”