Chennai: Former TNCC chief E.V.K.S. Elangovan on Saturday said the alliance between Congress and DMK would continue for local body elections and it would emerge victorious.
Elangovan’s remarks comes amidst reports of former Union minister P. Chidambaram asking his partymen to be prepared for going it alone in the local body elections at an activists meeting at Sivagangai. The two parties fought the recent Assembly elections together, but the DMK had not come out with its alliance strategy for the local body polls.
Elangovan also ruled out chances of taking over the TNCC president post again said the delay in the party would not cause problems since all are leaders in the party. Talking to reporters after the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at the party’s state headquarters Satyamurthy Bhavan, he said the TNCC leader would be nominated soon.
He also condemned the suspension of DMK MLAs from the Assembly and termed it an anti-democratic act. The Congress leader urged Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa to convene an all party meeting on the Cauvery issue and convey Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the disastrous consequences for Tamil Nadu if Karnataka built a dam across Cauvery at Mekedatu.
When reporters asked him if the TMC headed by G.K. Vasan would merge with the Congress again, he said there was no other option for Vasan. “If he corrected his mistakes and approach the party, we will accept him magnanimously”.
To a question on injecting poisonous injections to former LTTE activists kept in Sri Lankan camps, he said if the charges were true, murder cases should be filed against those responsible for the act and they should be given the punishment awarded to terrorists.
