‘Every party has right to decide’: Kanimozhi calm as Congress courts Vijay
DMK MP says she’s happy with another secular party, even as Congress’s TVK move sparks talk of betrayal in Tamil Nadu
Even as the DMK complained about “backstabbing” by ally Congress for joining hands with Vijay’s TVK to potentially form the next government in Tamil Nadu, party MP Kanimozhi on Wednesday (May 6) did not sound bitter in a media interview.
The Congress promised to back TVK as long as it did not join forces with “communal forces that do not believe in the Constitution of India”, evidently meaning the BJP. Vijay has reportedly also approached DMK’s other allies, the VCK, the CPI, and the CPI(M), for support.
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Kanimozhi’s interview to NDTV came shortly before the Congress’s announcement. She said “every party has a right to decide what they think is right” but “we will continue our fight”.
Happy with ‘another secular party’
She said the party’s alliance with partners was “ideological” and that DMK president and her brother MK Stalin knows it’s very important to keep their allies together.
Kanimozhi also said she did not “fear” yet another secular party in the form of TVK coming into politics and was even “happy that more parties like that” are present in Tamil Nadu.
She said the DMK, which bagged just 59 of the state’s 234 seats, would “introspect” its performance. Kanimozhi asserted that the party has seen “many victories and many electoral losses” and it knows how to “go on”.
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The DMK MP accepted that the people of Tamil Nadu wanted “a change” and “people were looking for something different”. She also wished Vijay and said she hoped and wished that TVK would give people “the government they want”.