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As a conception of Congress leaders intensified its request for a “share successful power” arsenic a information for continuing the confederation with the DMK for the 2026 Assembly predetermination successful Tamil Nadu, highly placed sources successful the ruling enactment rejected the connection outright. “Such an statement [a conjugation government] volition not enactment successful Tamil Nadu,” a highly placed root successful the DMK told The Hindu on Sunday (December 28, 2025). The root indicated that the enactment enactment would stay steadfast successful its decision.
The request gained momentum aft All India Congress Committee Tamil Nadu in-charge Girish Chodankar, who is heading the seat-sharing committee, made retired a lawsuit for including his enactment successful the adjacent government. “We volition person a full-fledged manifesto committee and our ain imaginativeness for Tamil Nadu. Our leaders volition travel to Tamil Nadu and denote assorted guarantees. Naturally, to fulfil the promises we marque successful the manifesto and to realise the imaginativeness we person for Tamil Nadu, we person to beryllium portion of the government,” helium told a quality bureau recently.
He contended that though the Congress had not been successful powerfulness successful the State for 58 years, its workers “are charged” and “working” time successful and time out. His views were endorsed connected Sunday by Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K. Selvaperunthagai, who said power-sharing was indispensable to fulfil the promises made to the people.
Congress leaders supported the request by pointing retired that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had shared powerfulness with his allies, though helium had the fig to signifier a authorities connected his own. However, the DMK leadership is learnt to person not taken kindly to specified arguments. Senior leaders of the ruling enactment are upset that contempt a bully rapport betwixt Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Congress person Rahul Gandhi, the nationalist enactment had failed to enactment against immoderate of its functionaries who are openly calling for snapping of the ties and joining hands with histrion Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).
The seat-sharing committee itself was formed by the Congress nationalist enactment to dispel rumours that it mightiness see an confederation with the TVK. However, views expressed by immoderate Congress functionaries, including Praveen Chakravarty who heads the Professionals’ Congress and Data Analytics, person created sizeable resentment successful the DMK.
Mr. Chakravarty on Sunday taunted the DMK by disputing the assertion of its parliamentary enactment person Kanimozhi that the Stalin authorities had transformed the debt-burdened Tamil Nadu into a developed State. “Tamil Nadu has the highest outstanding indebtedness among each States. In 2010, Uttar Pradesh had much than treble the indebtedness of Tamil Nadu. Now, Tamil Nadu has a higher indebtedness than Uttar Pradesh. Tamil Nadu’s involvement load is the 3rd highest aft Punjab and Haryana. Tamil Nadu’s debt-to-GDP ratio is inactive overmuch higher than pre-COVID levels. The State’s indebtedness concern is alarming,” helium posted connected societal media. Mr. Chakravarty had besides met met Mr. Vijay recently.
The statement enactment guardant by Congress leaders demanding a stock successful powerfulness is that they supported the DMK between 2006 and 2011 without immoderate expectation, though the DMK did not person the spot required to signifier a authorities connected its own. However, DMK leaders antagonistic that the PMK was besides portion of the DMK-led alliance past and supported it without immoderate specified expectation.
Asked astir the Congress’s demand, CPI(M) Polit Bureau subordinate G. Ramakrishnan said his party, an state of the DMK, was not making immoderate specified demand. “If immoderate of the allies makes specified a demand, it is for the DMK leadership to decide,” helium said.
