Congress rules out AIADMK entry into Tamil Nadu government

NEW DELHI: Amid continuing contention implicit the destiny of the AIADMK rebel faction successful Tamil Nadu and adjacent numbers enjoyed by governing TVK coalition, Congress MP Manickam Tagore said AIADMK won't articulation the Vijay govt, and the mandate successful the authorities is against immoderate benignant of "backdoor" authorities of BJP.Tagore, an aboriginal advocator of Congress flipping from the DMK campy to TVK, told TOI that numbers successful the authorities are not excessively adjacent to destabilise the Vijay govt, and the statement would enactment retired well.Asked astir VCK's menace to discontinue govt if the AIADMK faction is fixed ministerial berths, Tagore said, "AIADMK is not joining govt. So, the question does not arise. We are clear. We are against BJP. Backroom authorities of BJP should not beryllium allowed. Vijay govt was lone abbreviated of 10 seats of bulk mark.

All parties - Congress, VCK, IUML, Left - gave the numbers. So determination is nary request to instrumentality assistance of immoderate different party. Govt is safe."Tagore argued the numbers are not arsenic adjacent arsenic they are made retired to be, and "TVK's level managers volition woody with the issue."Tagore said rebellion successful AIADMK was due to the fact that the enactment ne'er aligned with DMK, but enactment main Edappadi Palaniswami readying to signifier govt with DMK aft the authorities polls threw up a hung assembly.

"They (AIADMK faction) gave crushed that they cannot spell with DMK due to the fact that the enactment was founded against DMK. These 25 MLAs were against the move, and alternatively favoured TVK. The Speaker has to determine astir their membership. The contented is connected the Speaker's table," helium said.Exuding assurance astir the aboriginal of the "secular progressive govt", Tagore said the TVK authorities is the archetypal conjugation govt successful TN aft 1957. "We anticipation that a caller epoch of conjugation has travel successful TN, and consciousness that we volition combat the hatred authorities that is trying to marque introduction into TN," helium said.