Farmers Movement Archive

No difference between DMK and Congress: Sanjay Dutt

TRICHY: Ruling out any differences between the Congress and the DMK, secretary of the All India Congress committee (AICC) secretary and party Tamil Nadu in-charge Sanjay Dutt on Monday said that the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) would work towards ensuring a clean sweep by the DMK-led alliance in the forthcoming assembly elections. “I must tell you that there is a good bonding between the Congress and the DMK. It is a perfect understanding. We are all working to ensure the victory of the Secular Progressive Alliance,” Dutt said in Trichy. He was here to launch the ongoing signature campaign against Centre’s Farm Acts and also to hold a meeting with the district secretaries and functionaries about the preparation for the upcoming assembly elections in the state. Dutt said while DMK president M K Stalin was the first one to declare Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate in 2019 general election, the latter reciprocated it by saying that TNCC would work to make Stalin the chief minister. Replying to a question by reporters, Dutt said it was too early to discuss the seat allocation. “We are working in all seats to strengthen the alliance. Our main objective is to win in all the 234 seats contested by candidates of the Secular Progressive Alliance,” he said. He announced a state-wide demonstration of the TNCC on November 9 to protest against the rising crimes against women and dalits in the state under the rule of the AIADMK which is supported by the BJP. The Congress leader said a tractor rally being conducted by the Congress from November 1 to November 10 across the country was aimed at extending solidarity towards the farming community. Terming the Edappadi K Palaniswami government as a puppet of the BJP government at the Centre, Dutt said the AIADMK indirectly supported the BJP over the ‘anti-farmer’ bills. He also said that there has been a good response to the signature campaign against the farm bills, which was getting support not only from the farmers but also from the common man. Trichy urban district president, V Jawahar, state vice-president Suba Somu, former Trichy Corporation mayor V Sujatha and several others partcipated.

The Times of India

2020-11-03

Trichy