TN Congress Leaders Meet CM Joseph Vijay Amid Prime Ministerial Row
· India · Hindustan Times, Times of India
Tamil Nadu Congress state president B Manickam Tagore and MP Praveen Chakravarthy met Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay at the Secretariat in Chennai on Monday. The 20-minute meeting took place amid a political row sparked by remarks from Congress minister S Rajesh Kumar, who threatened to pull two Congress ministers out of the cabinet if the ruling TVK does not support Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate for the 2029 general elections. The Congress won five seats under the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance before parting ways with the DMK and forming an alliance with TVK ahead of the April 23 Assembly elections. After a gap of 59 years, Congress holds two portfolios in the Vijay-led cabinet, with Rajesh Kumar serving as tourism minister and P Viswanathan as higher education minister. Tension escalated after TVK ministers K Jagadeshwari and D Sarath Kumar publicly projected Chief Minister Vijay as a future prime ministerial candidate. The Congress has maintained that Rahul G
Why it matters
The dispute tests the stability of the TVK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu and could determine whether the Congress retains its cabinet representation in the state government ahead of the 2029 national elections.
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