New Delhi:
The Congress’s decision to side with the TVK, whose electoral blockbuster has spelled the end of DMK rule in Tamil Nadu, has not gone down well with every party leader. Criticising his own party, veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has called it a “dreadful” move that “smacked of low political opportunism”.
By deciding to jump ship and join the TVK despite opposing them in the last election, he said, the party has violated Mahatma Gandhi’s 1925 maxim that Swaraj should be a government based on morality.
“Such politics of expediency is not the way forward,” Aiyar told news agency PTI.
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