Piyush Goyal meets Palaniswami in Chennai as BJP begins seat-sharing talks with AIADMK for 2026 polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) began seat-sharing negotiations with the AIADMK, which is heading the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) successful Tamil Nadu, for the 2026 Assembly elections. BJP Tamil Nadu predetermination in-charge and Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal met AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami successful Chennai.

This was Mr. Goyal’s archetypal sojourn to Tamil Nadu aft being appointed by the BJP precocious bid arsenic the party’s predetermination in-charge for the State to oversee organisational activities for the 2026 Assembly elections.

Mr. Goyal, on with Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, the party’s predetermination co-in-charge for the State, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L. Murugan, BJP State president Nainar Nagenthran, the party’s nationalist in-charge Arvind Menon, and co-in-charge P. Sudhakar Reddy, met a delegation of AIADMK leaders that included Mr. Palaniswami and erstwhile Ministers K.P. Munusamy, S.P. Velumani, Dindigul C. Sreenivasan, and P. Thangamani.

Both sides met astatine a prima edifice successful Chennai for lunch. Earlier, Mr. Goyal and different leaders arrived astatine Kamalalayam, the office of the BJP State portion successful Chennai, and held a gathering for astir an hr and a half. Former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and BJP Mahila Morcha nationalist president Vanathi Srinivasan besides participated successful the meeting.