DMK likely to go it alone in Pondy as Stalin loyalist deputed to snatch power

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DMK likely to go it alone in Pondy as Stalin loyalist deputed to snatch power

Thursday, 21 January 2021 | Kumar Chellappan | CHENNAI

On the eve of the visit of Congress supremo Rahul Gandhi to western Tamil Nadu, chinks in the party’s alliance with DMK surfaced as the Dravidian major entrusted S Jagathrakshakan MP to form a winnable alliance in the union territory of Puducherry which goes to the polls along with Tamil Nadu to elect a new legislative assembly.

Puducherry is administered as on today by a coalition Government headed by V Narayanasamy of the Congress with the support of the DMK. Jagathrakshakan, a diehard loyalist of the Karunanidhi family, told the executive committee members of the DMK’s Puducherry, to get ready to fight in all the 30 Assembky constituencies in the Union Territory.

“An alliance under the leadership of DMK will be formed here. Party president M K Stalin will announce the course of action the party would follow in Puducherry. He wants you to ensure victory in all 30 constituencies,” said Jagatrakshakan who heads an industrialist family with interests ranging from alcohol to power production.

The DMK had contested the last assembly election in Puducherry as part of an alliance led by the Congress. “The development of Puducherry has taken a beating for long. The mills have been shut and nothing has been done to revive the airport and port during the last ten years,” Jagatrakshakan pointed out.

KS Alagiri, president, TNCC was visibly upset over the development arising out of the DMK’s stance on Puducherry. “We do not expect any major changes in the policy of DMK. But if need arises, we are always ready with an alternate course of action,” said Alagiri while speaking to reporters at Tirupur.

Stalin, while speaking to a local newspaper in Chennai had ruled out any possibility of the DMK forming a coalition government in Tamil Nadu. “My earlier assessment was that the DMK would win 200 seats of its own.

Now I feel our prospects have increased in all 234 constituencies. The alliance partners are working hard with the common objective of forming a DMK Government,” Stalin said.

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