Exclusive: GK Vasan announces new party, Congress splits in Tamil Nadu
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03-11-2014, 10:53 PM
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GK Vasan announces new party, Congress splits in Tamil Nadu
Dealing a blow to the struggling ongress, its senior leader and former union minister GK Vasan on Monday quit the party and announced his decision to float a new outfit in Tamil Nadu.
Blaming those who were entrusted with the affairs of Congress in Tamil Nadu for failing in their duty to strengthen the party, Vasan announced at a crowded press conference that he and his supporters have decided to resign from Congress. "We are starting a new party. The name of the new party and its symbol would be announced soon at a rally to be held in Tiruchi shortly", he said. Vasan said the approach of AICC in Tamil Nadu was not satisfactory in achieving its goal which prompted him to resign from the party. "To achieve the goal in Tamil Nadu, there should be a different direction, a different approach from AICC, which we are not satisfied. We are having a new path.... we feel it will be a victory path", he said in stout defence of his new move. The decision by Vasan to disassociate from Congress, brings to end to his 14-year-long association with the grand old party following the merger of Tamil Manila Congress floated by his father G K Moopanar. Former Tamil Nadu unit Congress president BS Gnanadesikan was also present with Vasan. Gnanadesikan earlier quit as Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief, alleging the high command had not allowed them to use images of Tamil leaders GK Moopanar and K Kamraj on Congress membership cards. Vasan alleged party workers were infuriated by the controversy over the pictures. “In Tamil Nadu, the movement (Congress) can be strengthened only by invoking the legacy of Kamaraj and Moopanar,” he said. The development could not have come at a worse time for the Congress, which recorded its worst performance in the April-May general election, managing to win only 44 seats. It also lost power in Haryana and Maharashtra in last month’s assembly polls, causing a lot of concern among the party cadres. For Congress, history repeats itself For the Congress, Vasan's exit was history repeating itself , as his father G K Moopanar had done the same 17 years ago. Sulking over the Congress decision to forge electoral truck with AIADMK, Moopanar, a veteran and influential leader of Congress, came out of the party and floated the Tamil Manila Congress (TMC) in 1996. However, after Moopanar's death, TMC merged with the Congress in 2002. http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news...81924.aspx |
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