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Senior Congress person Mani Shankar Aiyar connected Monday (February 16, 2026) said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin stood the champion accidental of consolidating the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parties successful the INDIA bloc to “help Rahul Gandhi presume the Prime Minister’s Office”.
Speaking to reporters successful Thiruvananthapuram, helium said Mr. Stalin had refrained from hurling epithets and coining pseudo-slogans specified arsenic “Vote Chori and Chowkidar Chor Hai”. Instead, helium remained singularly focused connected “every azygous constituent that is applicable to federalism successful India”, Mr. Aiyar said.
He compared the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to the iconic Congress person precocious K. Kamaraj.
Mr. Aiyar described Mr. Stalin arsenic a “person of large virtue,” adding that helium would not basal successful the mode of Mr. Gandhi becoming Prime Minister.
During the interaction, the erstwhile Union Minister termed himself arsenic an outlier successful the Congress similar Jawaharlal Nehru and Subash Chandra Bose.
“Both leaders rebelled against Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi made Nehru the Prime Minister. The Mahatma would person surely tapped Bose arsenic President if the second had not mislaid his beingness successful the tragic aerial crash. In stark contrast, the existent enactment seeks to isolate Gandhian information tellers similar me,” helium added.
Explains stance
Mr. Aiyar quoted Dr. Ambedkar to explicate his estrangement from the Congress. “I americium not a portion of the whole; I americium a portion apart,” helium said and added that Mr. Gandhi had forgotten helium was a subordinate of the party. He further said that Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi were inspirational leaders. “I americium a Gandhian, a Nehruvian, a Rajivian, but not a Rahulian,” helium said.
As a Gandhian, helium was not acrophobic to talk truth, helium claimed. “It was loathsome to subordinate with a leadership” which had nary compunction successful elevating idiosyncratic similar K.C. Venugopal (AICC wide secretary-Organisation) to a station formerly held by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and appointing Pawan Khera arsenic the party’s nationalist spokesperson, helium said.
