INDIA allies question Congress over betraying DMK, criticising CPM

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: INDIA bloc allies, VCK and the Left parties, connected Monday criticised Congress implicit its confederation strategy successful the caller assembly elections successful Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal.

DMK sources told TOI the enactment would articulation the INDIA bloc lone if Congress is not portion of it. “We volition not beryllium a signatory of the missive to CJI connected SIR,” a elder DMK person said.Sources successful New Delhi said the mode successful which Congress severed its ties with DMK came up astatine Monday’s INDIA bloc meeting. “... Left parties besides raised objections implicit Congress attacking CPM successful Kerala, wherever the Left was accused of having a woody with BJP by politicians, including Rahul Gandhi,” sources said.The Left — CPM’s John Brittas and CPI’s Sandosh Kumar and D Raja — slammed Rahul Gandhi for alleging successful Kerala elections that the Left was the “B team” of the BJP. CPM and CPI besides slammed Congress for DMK’s determination to discontinue the alliance, accusing it of instigating the Dravidian enactment by abruptly crossing implicit to TVK aft the Tamil Nadu elections.At the meeting, VCK main Thol Thirumavalavan said Congress had caused dissatisfaction among respective constituents. He said Congress’s strategy successful Kerala, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu weakened parties that person been cardinal pillars of the alliance, including DMK, TMC and CPM. “This is neither desirable nor beneficial to the larger origin of absorption unity,” helium said.(With inputs from Ambika Pandit and Subodh Ghildiyal)