DMK believes that all opposition parties should unite and fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. (Image: PTI/File)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin was the first to congratulate the Congress after its massive victory in the Karnataka assembly elections.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin will be in Bengaluru to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah and his cabinet. After the Congress won a landslide victory in the Karnataka assembly elections, Stalin was among the first to congratulate the party. Stalin had tweeted, “Let us work together to win 2024 to restore democracy and constitutional values in India.”
The DMK also took a jibe at the BJP for its defeat in the “Dravidian land”. People of Karnataka have voted & they have upheld #KannadigaPride by teaching BJP’s vendetta politics a befitting lesson. The territory of Dravid family is away from BJP.
The DMK has repeatedly called for “unity” of all opposition parties and urged regional leaders to drop the idea of a Third Front. On 1 March, the party invited non-BJP state leaders to attend Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations in Chennai. Several opposition leaders, including Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, National Conference supremo Farooq Abdullah and RJD leader and Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav were present at the event. During his address at the event, Stalin called for a third front. did. Thoughts “vain”.
The party has always made a strong pitch for a united opposition under the leadership of the Congress. For the 2019 general elections as well, Stalin proposed the name of Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate. Now with less than a year left for the 2024 elections, the DMK has seized every opportunity to put forward a Congress-led front against the BJP.
