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Chennai: Constant needling from its alliance partners has pushed Tamil Nadus ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to drop its confrontational approach to its ideological rival BJP after the Lok Sabha elections, ThePrint has learnt...
Meanwhile, a senior DMK leader told ThePrint that the party has decided to shed its differences with the BJP-led Union government on governance for strategic reasons because the state government has been reeling under a financial crisis with the Centre holding up critical funds for some schemes...
However, the DMK will not compromise on its ideology as it would cost the party dearly in the 2026 assembly elections...
Despite governing the state for two decades after Independence, the Congress has not had a chief minister in Tamil Nadu since 1967.Since 1967, ithas been forging alliances with one of the two Dravidian partiesthe DMK or the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)...
The DMKs ties with the VCK have also hit the occasional speed bump.Just a month after the Lok Sabha results, Congress leader Selvaperunthagai and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Thol Thirumavalavan questioned the law and order situation and demanded a CBI probe after the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party state president K..
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