Chennai, Dec 9 (BPNS)
The group activities in the Tamil Nadu Congress party has escalated after senior leaders including senior leaders and former TNCC presidents like K.V. Thangabalu and EVKS Elangovan complained against the present president, K. S. Alagiri.
It may be recalled that a group of Congress workers owing allegiance to legislator Ruby Manoharan ransacked the TNCC headquarters, Satyamoorthy Bhavan. This was following a dispute in the Tirunelveli district Congress committee. Manoharan was sore that his followers were sidelined while sharing block-level party posts and that the DCC president, Jayakumar had filled the posts with his own supporters.
This resulted in cadres and middle-level leaders supporting Ruby Manoharan reaching party headquarters in three buses leading to ransacking of the office premises.
This led to the TNCC suspending Ruby Manoharan but within hours this was stayed by the AICC secretary in charge of Tamil Nadu, Dhinesh Gundurao. This led to several senior leaders owing allegiance to K.S.Alagiri coming out against Dinesh Gundu Rao.
Sources in the Congress party told BPNS that several senior Congress leaders were against the functioning of K.S.Alagiri and wanted to remove him from the post. Former Union minister and senior leader, Dhanushkodi Adityan while speaking to media persons said that group revival in the Congress party was a clear indication that the Congress was being strengthened in the state.
It is to be noted that the Congress has won 8 seats for loksabha from Tamil Nadu and the Congress in Tamil Nadu is on the path of recovery. This has led to dissent and voices of unrest among the senior leaders as the party under Alagiri has been taking up several issues leading to the party gaining ground in Tamil Nadu.
Dr. S. Swaminathan, a retired Professor of Political Science from a prominent University of Tamil Nadu while speaking to BPNS said, “ The Congress of Tamil Nadu in alliance with DMK has gained much ground and this is the cause for group war in the party. Congress being a democratic party, group wars and dissent are normal and ultimately the party is gaining ground in Tamil Nadu which is good for the grand old party which is puffing and panting in several parts of the country.”
With Congress trying to rejuvenate itself in the state, the group and dissident activities are also on the rise.
A senior leader of the Congress party owing allegiance to K.S. Alagiri while speaking to BPNS said, “Alagiri is a powerful leader and after several years someone is talking about the Congress party in Tamil Nadu and this is a good sign. The party is on the path of revival in the state and for the time being, a political alliance with DMK is doing the party well.”
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