The ripples of Puducherry might be felt in Tamil Nadu as a Congress-DMK alliance appears to be like out of query

The Tamil Nadu meeting elections are a number of months away and fissures in DMK-Congress alliance are already turning into seen within the neighbouring union territory of Puducherry. Senior DMK chief S Jagathrakshakan mentioned that the get together will contest on all 30 meeting seats of Puducherry meeting alone and added, “If we fail (to win polls), I will commit suicide on this stage.”The Congress get together is operating the Puducherry authorities in alliance with the DMK as a result of it’s in need of a majority. In the 30 seats of the meeting that go for polls, Congress received 14 within the final election whereas DMK received 3 and each events got here collectively to type the federal government. If the DMK decides to drag out the help, the Congress-DMK alliance authorities would fall months earlier than the election (anticipated to be held by May this 12 months) and V Narayanasamy must resign from the CM chair. S Jagathrakshakan, the senior get together chief and possible CM candidate, is assured that he’ll acquire the higher hand within the upcoming meeting election if DMK involves energy within the state. The points between DMK-Congress began popping out in open when the grand outdated get together carried out badly within the 2019 common election however received nearly all of the seats in Tamil Nadu, due to its alliance with DMK. Many DMK leaders questioned the flexibility of the Congress to win votes and began seeing it as baggage. The Congress get together in Tamil Nadu is dominated by the Chidambaram household, which is understood for arduous bargaining ways however enjoys no reputation among the many folks of the state. The M Ok Stalin-led UPA received 38 seats out of the 39 in Tamil Nadu within the 2019 meeting election. Moreover, the Congress get together within the state was additional weakened in the previous couple of months as a result of a lot of its leaders together with the senior ones like Khusboo Sundar joined BJP to remain related. The Congress get together has thus develop into a legal responsibility for a lot of regional events, contributing to their loss. For instance, among the many main causes of the RJD-led Grand Alliance’s loss in Bihar, was the poor tally of Congress which received lower than 20 seats out of 70 it contested. Even the Communist events have higher strike charges in comparison with Congress and subsequently many regional events and their leaders have began questioning their alliance with the Congress get together. In Kerala, the Kerala Congress left the Congress-led United Democratic Front over the last native physique elections attributable to rising tilt of the get together in direction of the Muslims league. The Christian votes shifted to the Left Democratic Front and this resulted in a humiliating loss for the UDF within the 2020 native physique elections. The leaders of the regional events don’t wish to ally with Congress as a result of the central management of the get together can not carry votes like Prime Minister Modi. Even the regional leaders like Narayanasamy or Chidambaram are too ineffective in fetching votes. These leaders aren’t widespread sufficient to win votes on their very own and thus they develop into baggage for his or her alliance companions.This is what is occurring in Puducherry and the outcome will the tip of the Congress-DMK alliance. “Even Narayanasamy hoped he could talk and resolve any problem through Stalin. But Jagathrakshagan was adamant. We have only three seats in Puducherry now. The leadership is told that more than five or six winnable candidates will join DMK from other parties before polls to capture power. We will wait and see,” mentioned a senior DMK chief. The impact of Puducherry might be seen in Tamil Nadu and by the point the state goes into the election, even Stalin may reduce the luggage of Congress.