Congress changes strategy, opts for senior T.N. leader to hold seat-sharing talks with DMK

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Tamil Nadu Congress leaders astatine DMK headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, to sermon spot sharing betwixt DMK and the Congress Party for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections, successful Chennai connected February 28, 2026 | Photo Credit: ANI

Changing its strategy, the Congress precocious bid has decided to depute a elder Congress person from Tamil Nadu to clasp seat-sharing talks with the DMK for the upcoming Assembly elections.

Until now, AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu, Girish Chodankar, who hails from Goa, was negotiating with the DMK arsenic caput of his party’s seat-sharing committee.

However, strains had emerged betwixt the 2 parties, and the DMK had made it wide to the Congress to state its presumption connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) arsenic filing of nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections is acceptable to extremity connected March 5.

Sources said elder AICC leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and K.C. Venugopal, volition person a virtual gathering with a Congress person from Tamil Nadu and decided to depute him for the talks with the DMK.

Published - March 03, 2026 10:22 americium IST

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