Tamil Nadu polls: Congress chief Kharge chairs key meet; says it's 'equality vs bigotry'

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Friday chaired a gathering with enactment leaders from Tamil Nadu, wherever assembly elections are expected to beryllium held successful April.Lok Sabha person of absorption and erstwhile enactment main Rahul Gandhi and wide caput (organisation), KC Venugopal, besides attended the gathering astatine the enactment headquarters, Indira Bhawan, successful Delhi. Veteran person and erstwhile Union curate P Chidambaram, who hails from Tamil Nadu, was besides present.“We held a cardinal gathering with our leaders from Tamil Nadu. We are assured that the radical of Tamil Nadu would take equality, societal justice, empowerment and bully governance implicit the bigotry, sectarianism, and anti-federal, discriminatory authorities of the RSS-BJP,” Kharge posted connected X on with a video of the meeting.

“The

Congress party

is determined to play an important relation successful fulfilling the aspirations of the radical of the state,” helium added.In Tamil Nadu, the Congress is portion of the Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) led by main curate MK Stalin’s DMK. The SPA swept the authorities successful 2021, winning 159 of the 234 assembly seats, with the DMK unsocial securing 133 and the Congress 18.

In caller days, however, speculation has surfaced astir a conception of the party’s Tamil Nadu portion favouring an confederation with Tamil superstar Vijay’s fledgling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam.

Earlier this week, Gandhi posted connected X accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of “insulting” the Tamil radical and their civilization implicit the non-release of Vijay’s movie "Jana Nayagan," which is embroiled successful a ineligible conflict with the Censor Board implicit its clearance.