Chennai: Is TMC chief G K Vasan trying to get back to parent party Congress? This is the speculation doing the rounds in political circles in New Delhi with reports saying that Mr Vasan is keen on merging his party with the Congress.
Highly placed sources said the former Union shipping minister, who quit the Congress in November 2014, met a senior Congress leader during his recent visit to the national capital.
Speculation about the return of Mr Vasan, whose TMC bit the dust in the recent Assembly polls, gained momentum after his visit to the capital, where he camped for three days. This is the first time that the TMC chief spent more than a day in the national capital after he launched the TMC in 2014.
However, sources in the TMC dismissed the suggestion saying there was no truth in the speculation. “The speculation began after a senior leader of the party wrote a ‘get well soon’ letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi after she took ill. The letter was written as part of courtesies extended to leaders who take ill and there is nothing political in it,” a senior leader said.
Another leader close to Mr Vasan confirmed his recent Delhi trip, but refused to share more details. Political circles in Delhi are abuzz with rumours that the ‘get well soon’ letter might be the first step towards rapprochement with the Congress.
The speculation comes in the backdrop of reports that the TMC wants to have an electoral tie-up with the DMK for the local body elections. TMC, which contested Assembly elections as part of the PWA, ended up a cropper and quit the rainbow alliance a month after the results were announced.
