<p>Former IPS officer K Annamalai, Karnataka's very own '<em>Singham</em>', will join the BJP on Tuesday, as the saffron party braces itself for the crucial Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu next year.</p>.<p>Annamalai, who served in Karnataka for nearly a decade, resigned from service in 2019 to "work among the people." <em>DH</em> was the first <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/top-bengaluru-stories/ace-ips-officer-annamalai-puts-in-papers-736617.html" target="_blank">report</a> to his resignation last year.</p>.<p>The 36-year-old former IPS officer will join BJP in the presence of its President J P Nadda at 11 am in New Delhi.</p>.<p>"BJP is a nationalist party and I am a nationalist in the first place. I think BJP will be able to give a new vision and direction to Tamil Nadu," he told <em>Deccan Herald</em>.</p>.<p>After resigning from service, Annamalai launched an organisation to work with farmers in Karur and Coimbatore. He had maintained that he was not taking a political plunge anytime soon.</p>.<p>He said he is joining BJP unconditionally and his admiration for #NarendraModi is one of the things that made him take the decision.</p>.<p>"The call to join the BJP was taken very late. I feel political change is important than social change and that is why I decided to take the political plunge now," he said.</p>.<p>The former IPS officer believes BJP has been wrongly represented in Tamil Nadu . "The party is not perceived the way it is here in other states. A wrong perception of BJP has been created here, " he said.</p>
<p>Former IPS officer K Annamalai, Karnataka's very own '<em>Singham</em>', will join the BJP on Tuesday, as the saffron party braces itself for the crucial Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu next year.</p>.<p>Annamalai, who served in Karnataka for nearly a decade, resigned from service in 2019 to "work among the people." <em>DH</em> was the first <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/top-bengaluru-stories/ace-ips-officer-annamalai-puts-in-papers-736617.html" target="_blank">report</a> to his resignation last year.</p>.<p>The 36-year-old former IPS officer will join BJP in the presence of its President J P Nadda at 11 am in New Delhi.</p>.<p>"BJP is a nationalist party and I am a nationalist in the first place. I think BJP will be able to give a new vision and direction to Tamil Nadu," he told <em>Deccan Herald</em>.</p>.<p>After resigning from service, Annamalai launched an organisation to work with farmers in Karur and Coimbatore. He had maintained that he was not taking a political plunge anytime soon.</p>.<p>He said he is joining BJP unconditionally and his admiration for #NarendraModi is one of the things that made him take the decision.</p>.<p>"The call to join the BJP was taken very late. I feel political change is important than social change and that is why I decided to take the political plunge now," he said.</p>.<p>The former IPS officer believes BJP has been wrongly represented in Tamil Nadu . "The party is not perceived the way it is here in other states. A wrong perception of BJP has been created here, " he said.</p>
