Rahul Gandhi found himself at the centre of an attack by the MK Stalin-led DMK, a former ally, on Tuesday. A day later, on Wednesday, the censure had turned to support.
DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai questioned Rahul Gandhi’s stance on the deletions made through the SIR process in Tamil Nadu. A day later, the party changed its tune, saying this government doesn’t want Rahul Gandhi to protest against Gyanesh Kumar.
It is the right of the citizens to fight against the government’s wrongdoings, and that is what Rahul Gandhi did yesterday. Yesterday, Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, headlined the Opposition INDIA bloc’s protest and led a march from parliament to Election Commission’s office to demand the scrapping of special intensive revision of electoral rolls, and sacking of the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. “How can elections be fair if Gyanesh Kumar, holding a high post, is anti-democratic? He should definitely be removed. The Congress severed ties with its longtime ally to support actor Vijay’s TVK in forming the government, triggering a bitter fallout between the DMK and Congress.
After the 2026 state assembly polls, the decades-old DMK-Cong alliance collapsed.
This government doesn’t want Rahul Gandhi to protest against Gyanesh Kumar,” DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan said today, a day after the party criticised Rahul Gandhi, questioning his “silence” over the alleged voter deletions in Tamil Nadu. Annadurai accused the Congress MP of “adopting inconsistent positions” regarding the electoral roll revision exercise and asked why developments in Tamil Nadu had not received the same attention as the broader campaign against the Election Commission.
