DMK has another Alagiri problem, this time from Congress

January 13, 2020 18:24

Sonia Gandhi's meeting with Opposition parties on Monday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act saw its longstanding ally the DMK give it a miss.

And thereby hangs a tale.

Apparently DMK chief MK Stalin is upset with the Congress's central leadership for encouraging the TNCC chief K S Alagiri to issue statements that go against the alliance's interests, and asked his party man in Delhi, T R Baalu, to stay away from the meeting.

The DMK is now openly saying that unless Alagiri is replaced, there is no chance of the alliance between the two parties going forward.

The DMK's stance comes a little more than a year of Tamil Nadu going in for assembly polls next April.

Baalu, who landed in Delhi on Monday morning, was asked to stay away from the Sonia Gandhi helmed all-party meeting to send a signal to the Congress that the alliance is on the brink.

Last Friday, Congress leader Alarigi issued a statement that the DMK cannot take the Congress for granted, angering the Dravidian party leadership.

But not just the Congress, the DMK is also upset with another alliance partner.

Reports that the state unit of the CPM is hobnobbing with the ruling AIADMK has riled the TN opposition party no end.

Will all this lead to alliances being redrawn for next year's assembly polls, remains to be seen.

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