TNCC renews call for unity of Congress

CHENNAI, March 29: The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee has reiterated its resolve to bring all the Congress leaders and cadres who had left th...

CHENNAI, March 29: The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee has reiterated its resolve to bring all the Congress leaders and cadres who had left the party due to the split before the 1996 general elections back on a common political platform. In a reference to the statement by party dissidents led by Tindivanam K Ramamurthy, TNCC spokesperson K Sakthivel on Saturday recalled that the TNCC on several occasions in the past two years had passed resolutions to the effect that the party organisation should be strengthened with the active involvement of those who left the party earlier. TNCC president K V Thangabalu

had the right and responsibility to unite the Congress forces in the State, Sakthivel asserted.

Describing Thangabalu’s detractors like R Anbarasu and Tindivanam Ramamurthy as persons who refused to take responsibility in the party organisation, Sakthivel said strengthening the party on the basis of unity of persons of Congress origin would be top priority for the TNCC.

Sakthivel said the DMK Front got ridof MGR Anna DMK leader S Thirunavukkarasu before the polls because it suspected that he would in the future join hands with AIADMK leader J Jayalalitha if he believed such action would serve his purpose. How is it possible to continue to have an alliance with MGR Anna DMK as the TNCC dissidents were opposed to any understanding with Thirunavukkarasu before the polls, Sakthivel said.

Sakthivel accused Anbarasu and others of doublespeak, deception and indulging in anti-party activities.