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Congress on Thursday dismissed suggestions that Rahul Gandhi’s statement asking party workers to dispel doubts about the party regaining power in Tamil Nadu in future meant it was considering snapping its alliance with DMK in the coming Assembly polls.
“It is a wrong interpretation to Rahul’s statement….. What he said was more a conceptual and a philosophical expression and should be taken in a broader perspective and not in the context of state politics,” party General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters.
He said that the Congress and the DMK are alliance partners in Tamil Nadu and the “alliance will continue”.
Gandhi,who is touring Tamil Nadu,had at a meeting in Tirnelveli asked party workers to dispel doubts about party regaining power in Tamil Nadu in future and urged them to strengthen it by focusing more on local body polls instead of being “preoccupied” with parliament or assembly elections.
Congress has been out of power for the last 40 years in Tamil Nadu. A section in the state unit of Congress is against continuing the alliance with the DMK,which it feels is on a slippery wicket after the 2G scam.
