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BJP tried to stitch a coalition Government in Tamil Nadu with the DMK and its arch rival AIADMK on May 4, the very day of counting of votes polled during the Assembly election, accused Congress’ Virudhunagar MP, B. Manickam Tagore on Sunday (May 24, 2026).
An important leader of the BJP spoke to the AIADMK and the DMK leaders for facilitating the coalition, he claimed.
“DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin, quickly jumped for this coalition idea with the sole motive of stalling TVK president C. Joseph Vijay from becoming the Chief Minister, but failed in his attempt,” he alleged.
Mr. Tagore's claim comes against the backdrop of Mr. Udhayanidhi Stalin launching a sharp attack on the Congress, a day earlier.
According to him, the DMK wanted to make AIADMK general secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, the Chief Minister with its outside support to prevent Mr. Vijay becoming the CM.
TVK leaders were made to wait repeatedly by the Governor in inviting them to form the government as the entire drama was enacted by the BJP, he further claimed. “We got wind of the development immediately ... but we did not reveal it then,” the Virudhunagar MP said.
He said the same information has been shared by CPI (M) leader M.A. Baby, VCK leader Thol. Thirumavalavan, AIADMK leader C. Ve. Shanmugam and IUML leader Kader Mohideen.
“The DMK will soon strike an understanding with the BJP. DMK’s 22 MPs will either walk out of the Parliament or abstain from voting (against the BJP-led Centre),” he charged.
Pointing to the DMK having asked the Lok Sabha Speaker to allocate different seating arrangement away from the Congress, after the latter unilaterally severed ties with it, Mr. Tagore wondered will the DMK sit in the ‘centre’. “Gradually, they would extend their support to the BJP,” he added.
Mr. Udhayanidhi has brought DMK to a stage where the party is likely to give up all its ideologies for which it had stood all these years, he believed.
Condemning Mr. Udhayanidhi for making strong remarks against the Congress leaders, Mr. Tagore said the Congress men knew how to repay the DMK.
All the claims of the DMK about upholding secularism and not harming the TVK government for the first six months were only a pretence. All that the Congress wanted was to prevent the BJP from making direct or indirect entry into Tamil Nadu governance.
“The DMK believed that all its alliance parties would fall for its claim that the AIADMK had broken away from the BJP and expected them to support the AIADMK Government. And if TVK leader became the Chief Minister, it would be under the control of the BJP. However, since the Congress did not give any room for the DMK to make any such manipulations, the DMK is spewing venom against the Congress,” he charged.
INDIA alliance still remained strong and will continue to fight against the Modi Government in the Centre, he said.
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