TVK-Congress Alliance Saved In Nick Of Time
The differences were sparked some time back with State PWD Minister Aadhav Arjuna suggesting that the next Prime Minister of the country should be from Tamil Nadu, which caught up with TVK acolytes who started the campaign ‘Vijay for Prime Minister’ that started trending in social media.
Chennai: A possible snapping of ties between the TVK and Congress, constituents of the ruling coalition in the State, was averted by TNCC president Manickam Tagore, who called on Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay at the Secretariat on Monday for a rapprochement between the two parties that were at loggerheads over the next Prime Ministerial candidate.
The differences were sparked some time back with State PWD Minister Aadhav Arjuna suggesting that the next Prime Minister of the country should be from Tamil Nadu, which caught up with TVK acolytes who started the campaign ‘Vijay for Prime Minister’ that started trending in social media.
Inspired by that, CVoter, a pollster claiming to read the pulse of the nation, undertook a survey along with a national English magazine and came up with a result that put Vijay in the reckoning for Prime Minister. The results said that while Narendra Modi had the support of 48 percent of the respondents to their survey, Rahul Gandhi came second with 27 percent support and Vijay with 9.2 percent backing.
With that result going viral presenting Vijay as a prime ministerial candidate in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, Manickam Tagore said that the TVK cadre refused to come out of their film fan club mentality
With TVK supporters going gaga over the opinion poll results, the Congress party in Tamil Nadu perked up with State Minister S Rajesh Kumar warning that his party would give up the two ministerial posts in the State cabinet, suggesting a breakup of the ties between the two parties, if the TVK did not support the candidature of Rahul Gandhi for the Prime Minister’s post.
Tagore put out a ‘short story’ in his X page to elucidate that the survey was only ‘a story prepared to create an opinion’ by narrating a scheme by some animals in the forest, particularly a fox, to drive a wedge between a lion and elephant who were close friends and formed a strong coalition.
The moral of the story, Tagore said, was ‘Not every number tells the truth. Not every survey is the voice of the people,’ telling the TVK to not take the survey seriously.
So, just as the alliance between the Congress and TVK was seen to be hanging by a thin thread, Tagore set things right by going and meeting Vijay and sorting out things.