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A warfare of words broke retired betwixt Congress MPs B. Manickam Tagore and Jothimani implicit DMK president M.K. Stalin’s disapproval that the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) was indulging successful horse-trading after 3 AIADMK MLAs resigned from their posts and joined the ruling enactment connected Monday (May 25, 2026).
Responding to Mr. Stalin, Mr. Tagore, representing the Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency, asked successful a societal media station connected Monday wherefore the DMK president was “screaming implicit the resignation of the 3 AIADMK MLAs.” “They person openly joined the TVK aft their resignation. This is simply a governmental determination that took spot successful beforehand of the public,” helium said.
Mr. Tagore besides took a excavation astatine the DMK, claiming that the radical of Tamil Nadu knew who tried to play [politics] with those successful powerfulness astatine the Centre without respecting the public’s mandate. “They besides cognize who stood up to prevention the people’s government,” helium remarked.
Cannot instrumentality dual stand: Jothimani
However, connected Tuesday (May 26), Karur MP Jothimani said that the Congress cannot instrumentality a dual basal of supporting horse-trading wrong Tamil Nadu portion opposing it extracurricular the State.
“Horse-trading was the limb utilized by the BJP to weaken ideology and the Congress successful India. The BJP has been employing horse-trading successful assorted States, against the people’s mandate, for preventing the Congress from forming authorities oregon preventing a Congress authorities from continuing successful power,” she said.
“If the Congress acts similar a unit to weaken the democracy, it would beryllium a humanities betrayal to the ideologies of [M.K.] Gandhi and [Jawaharlal] Nehru,” she said.
Ms. Jothimani said that the Congress would enactment the TVK for bully governance, but her enactment could not backmost each its actions. “Such acts should beryllium strengthening the democracy, not weakening it,” she said. The enactment should besides not mince words to explicit its sentiment successful specified situations, she said, adding that nary subordinate of the enactment tin warrant horse-trading.
Reacting to Ms. Jothimani’s veiled remark against him, Mr. Tagore made a pointed onslaught connected societal media, claiming that the Karur MP had not uttered a connection successful the past 3 days, erstwhile the DMK had denigrated the Congress and its person Mr. Gandhi and termed the nationalist enactment “a parasite and traitor.”
Ms. Jothimani reacted to Mr. Tagore remarks, wondering what these “sudden” DMK opposers were doing earlier the TVK was formed, and erstwhile comments were made portraying Congress person Kamaraj successful mediocre light.
The Karur MP recalled fewer incidents wherein she had vociferously revolted against the DMK successful the past, erstwhile the concern warranted it, adjacent arsenic the Congress was successful confederation with the Dravidian party.
