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NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manickam Tagore connected Sunday refuted speculations astir a rift betwixt DMK and the grand-old enactment implicit spot sharing up of Tamil Nadu assembly elections, claiming that the enactment volition person the "respect that is due.
"While talking to reporters, Tagore reiterated that Congress is successful confederation with DMK and a committee, for spot sharing talks, volition beryllium formed connected the 22nd February."We are not similar different parties that power directions aft simply putting connected an indicator and turning right. We are a nationalist enactment with principles. We are successful an confederation with the DMK arsenic portion of the INDIA bloc," Tagore said."It has been 70 days since we were told that a committee would beryllium formed for talks, and we are inactive waiting.
They person present said that the committee volition beryllium formed connected the 22nd February. We judge that we volition person the respect that is owed to us," helium added.Earlier connected Saturday, Tagore pushed his party's request for a larger stock of seats successful its confederation with the DMK.He said the Congress was seeking constituencies that the DMK had mislaid successful the 2021 polls and emphasised that "power-sharing was essential" successful state's governance. However, days earlier, Stalin ruled retired the anticipation of sharing powerfulness with allies.
Tagore’s remarks came successful effect to comments made by DMK person and authorities curate RS Raja Kannappan successful Madurai connected February 13, wherever helium asserted that the DMK would contention 170 constituencies and triumph 160 seats successful the upcoming election.Reacting to the statement, Tagore, the MP from Virudhunagar, said successful a station connected X: “In 2021, you contested successful 173 seats and secured 133. What we are asking (now) are the seats which you failed to win.”He further underlined the Congress’s presumption connected governance, saying, “Power sharing is necessary. The stock successful powerfulness is our right. The radical volition decide,” portion sharing a video clip of Raja Kannappan’s speech.In the video, Raja Kannappan ruled retired the anticipation of a conjugation government, expressing assurance that the DMK would independently unafraid 160 seats.Days earlier, CM Stalin powerfully ruled retired sharing powerfulness with allies, portion maintaining that the confederation with the Congress remained “intact” and escaped of confusion.“We besides cognize that it volition not enactment successful Tamil Nadu; they (Congress) cognize it too. It is simply a occupation created by immoderate people. They are deliberately conspiring to spot if determination volition beryllium a rift successful the alliance. We are not disquieted astir it. Rahul Gandhi is not disquieted either,” Stalin said.The Tamil Nadu assembly has 234 seats, and the DMK-Congress confederation had won 151 seats successful the 2021 elections.
