This Article is From Jun 10, 2011

Congress mouthpiece blames DMK for poll losses

New Delhi: Blaming DMK for the drubbing in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections, Congress has said there is a need to take a "relook" at its strategy in the southern state as the party must not lose its vote bank due to "mistakes of its coalition partners".
   
The remarks made in the editorial and an article of the latest issue of party mouthpiece 'Congress Sandesh' have come at a time when DMK chief M Karunanidhi, at a party meet, decided against pulling out of the UPA government and decided to fight the Kanimozhi case legally.
   
"The results in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were affected by the 2G scam and these states were lost to other parties," the editorial said.
   
Another article in the journal says, "The Congress has to have another look at their strategy in the southern state. It must not lose its vote bank due to the mistakes of its coalition partners." Congress was part of the DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu.
   
Sarvajit Singh, who is one of the two-member editorial board of 'Congress Sandesh' along with Union Minister Salman Khurshid, also categorically says in the article that results in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were influenced by "public discontent" on the 2G scam being faced by members of the DMK.
   
"A lot of good work done by the ruling party was lost in the public anger against the alleged huge loss to the exchequer being attributed to a DMK minister," it says.
   
Noting that the UPA government at the Centre has allowed law to take its own course and "many important political figures associated with DMK and others are currently interned", the article insists "the Congress has to regain its old glory and be in a position to be in power by itself."

Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi parried questions on the remarks made in the party mouthpiece on the drubbing in the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections.
   
"I don't think it is proper to discuss any editorial or an article in a party mouthpiece in detail. You can draw your own inference," he told reporters here.

 

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