Virudhunagar MP Manickam Tagore has claimed that the Congress walked out of the DMK alliance only after seeing through design of the DMK in joining hands with AIADMK.

In a social media post, he said that “the two Dravidian parties who are life-time enemies have joined together over night... Their claim of forming a stable government is only a political language to protect their power,” he said.

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The proposed coming together of the DMK and its arch rival AIADMK is not for the sake of Tamil Nadu or for upholding secularism but to stop TVK founder C. Joseph Vijay from forming the government in Tamil Nadu, accused Mr. Tagore.

Mr. Tagore said that the DMK could not claim to be a secular party by joining hands with the AIADMK, which he described as the “B” Team of RSS and BJP.

The Congress has rightly left the DMK alliance, Mr. Tagore said.

“Will the DMK unmask itself today? Who is the betrayer?” the Congress MP retorted in retaliation for the DMK’s accusation that the Congress was a betrayer and backstabbed the alliance partners.