India, Oct. 22 -- After former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader K Annamalai launched a tirade against the Centre over the crackdown on protests against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision, the party hit back at him for switching his earlier stance on the SIR. Annamalai, who slammed the government and police response to protests and the detention of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activists, was accused of double standards as BJP claimed he had earlier defended the electoral roll revision exercise.

Annamalai's criticism of the BJP-led government came months after he left the party in June this year. In an X post on Wednesday, the former Tamil Nadu BJP president alleged that those raising their voice against the government could be "jail...