India, June 6 -- Congress MP Karthi Chidambaram said on Friday that former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai may have only joined the saffron party as Tamil superstar Rajinikanth did not launch a political outfit.

Annamalai resigned from the BJP earlier this week and announced his own political movement, "against cult politics," on Friday, which he said would eventually turn into a political party and contest the next assembly elections in the state.

Calling it a "gutsy move", Karthi Chidambaram said that the former IPS officer had "realised" that the BJP has "very limited acceptance" in Tamil Nadu.

"See, this is something which was in the offing for a long time. Annamalai has realised something which I have always known-that the BJ...