CHENNAI: VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan met Congress president Rahul Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury in New Delhi on Wednesday and expressed cohesion with the leaders. The sudden move by the VCK, a DMK ally, comes within the wake of a meeting of Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao with DMK running president M Okay Stalin in Chennai on Sunday to speak about a possible Federal Front of regional events, hostile to the BJP.
"I am afraid attempts are being made to sideline Congress and build a third front that will pave way for BJP to return to power. All secular forces should join hands to resist such a move," Thirumavalavan informed TOI. People like Chandrasekhar Rao and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee are taking the hassle to bring together regional events. The DMK leaders said they were shocked by the assembly.
‘Our celebration will stay with the Congress’
C PM should take the lead in bringing together secular forces, wherein Congress is a component, said Thirumavalavan after a meeting with Yechury. The dalit chief informed Rahul Gandhi that his celebration would stay with the Congress.
“We are always anti-communal; we are with you,” the VCK chief is said to have informed Rahul. The Congress president welcomed the commitmentof thedalit celebration to stay anticommunal. Thirumavalavan, who used to be within the capital to attend the protests organized by a coalition of SC and ST outfits, National Resistance Day, towards the dilution of the stringent provisions of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, got rapid appointments with Yechury and Rahul. The separate conferences with the leaders lasted for ten minutes each.
The third front, Thirumavalavan said, used to be pointless “as it will most effective break up the votes”. The VCK chief invited Rahul Gandhi to attendthe celebration’s “SavetheNation” convention scheduled to be held in Tamil Nadu in June. He asked the Congress chief to fix a date of his convenience. “Rahul agreed to come,” Thirumavalavan said.
Reacting tothe assembly,DMKleader S Duraimurugan said there used to be no discuss a 3rd front. “We are married (DMK-Congress alliance) for over ten years,” he said. CPM chief T Okay Rangarajan said there should be a vast team spirit to defeat BJP at any price. “The Left, democratic and secular forces will decide. The third front will take you nowhere,” the RS MP said.
TNCC president S Thirunavukkarasar welcomedtheVCKleader’sstatementthatonly Congress beneath the leadership of Rahul Gandhi may lead the country and not a 3rd front. “There cannot be a 3rd front. V P Singh,IKGujralor HDDeveGowda...nothird front chief may give a full five-year term. Rahul Gandhi will develop into the next PM,” he said,pushing aside the prospectsof a thirdfront. TheCongresschief playeddown the assembly of Rao and Stalin as that of 1 between two political leaders, and not necessarily for alliance formation. “Both said nothing towards Congress,” Thirunavukkarasar said.
VCK used to be some of the constituents of People’s Welfare Front, an anti-AIADMK and anti-BJP alliance, for the 2016 Tamil Nadu meeting election. Left events, Vijayakanth’s DMDK andVaiko’sMDMKwere partof the alliance that used to be routed.
"I am afraid attempts are being made to sideline Congress and build a third front that will pave way for BJP to return to power. All secular forces should join hands to resist such a move," Thirumavalavan informed TOI. People like Chandrasekhar Rao and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee are taking the hassle to bring together regional events. The DMK leaders said they were shocked by the assembly.
‘Our celebration will stay with the Congress’
C PM should take the lead in bringing together secular forces, wherein Congress is a component, said Thirumavalavan after a meeting with Yechury. The dalit chief informed Rahul Gandhi that his celebration would stay with the Congress.
“We are always anti-communal; we are with you,” the VCK chief is said to have informed Rahul. The Congress president welcomed the commitmentof thedalit celebration to stay anticommunal. Thirumavalavan, who used to be within the capital to attend the protests organized by a coalition of SC and ST outfits, National Resistance Day, towards the dilution of the stringent provisions of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, got rapid appointments with Yechury and Rahul. The separate conferences with the leaders lasted for ten minutes each.
The third front, Thirumavalavan said, used to be pointless “as it will most effective break up the votes”. The VCK chief invited Rahul Gandhi to attendthe celebration’s “SavetheNation” convention scheduled to be held in Tamil Nadu in June. He asked the Congress chief to fix a date of his convenience. “Rahul agreed to come,” Thirumavalavan said.
Reacting tothe assembly,DMKleader S Duraimurugan said there used to be no discuss a 3rd front. “We are married (DMK-Congress alliance) for over ten years,” he said. CPM chief T Okay Rangarajan said there should be a vast team spirit to defeat BJP at any price. “The Left, democratic and secular forces will decide. The third front will take you nowhere,” the RS MP said.
TNCC president S Thirunavukkarasar welcomedtheVCKleader’sstatementthatonly Congress beneath the leadership of Rahul Gandhi may lead the country and not a 3rd front. “There cannot be a 3rd front. V P Singh,IKGujralor HDDeveGowda...nothird front chief may give a full five-year term. Rahul Gandhi will develop into the next PM,” he said,pushing aside the prospectsof a thirdfront. TheCongresschief playeddown the assembly of Rao and Stalin as that of 1 between two political leaders, and not necessarily for alliance formation. “Both said nothing towards Congress,” Thirunavukkarasar said.
VCK used to be some of the constituents of People’s Welfare Front, an anti-AIADMK and anti-BJP alliance, for the 2016 Tamil Nadu meeting election. Left events, Vijayakanth’s DMDK andVaiko’sMDMKwere partof the alliance that used to be routed.
VCK leader meets Rahul Gandhi, Sitaram Yechury
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