Thiruvananthapuram: The Janadhipathya Rashtreeya Sabha, headed by tribal leader C K Janu, has severed ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Janu on Sunday said her party decided to quit the NDA alleging that the front had failed to keep all the promises made to her outfit.

"We waited for two years and a half. The NDA is not even meeting properly. That is why we decided to leave it," Janu said.

She said her Kerala-based party was open for discussions with other parties (to join alliances).

Janu had earlier asked the BJP to keep the promises it had made to other allies including the Thushar Vellappally-led Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS). Janu formed the Janadhipathya Rashtreeya Sabha ahead of the assembly polls in 2016. Before she formed the outfit, there were reports that she would join the BDJS.

Janu, who led several Adivasi struggles for land rights over a decade, is the most prominent face of tribal activism in Kerala. She had contested the 2016 assembly polls from the Sulthan Bathery seat as an NDA-backed independent but came to a distant third behind Congress' I C Balakrishnan and CPI (M)'s Rugmini Subrahmanian.

The BJP is yet to respond to Janu's decision to quit the alliance.