Chennai (Tamil Nadu): A few days after an apparent rift appeared in the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)- Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu over seat allocation in local polls, both the parties decided to bury the hatchet to avoid giving fodder to "political rivals" and a "section of the media."
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri, whose act of publicly accusing DMK president M.K. Stalin of “not adhering to coalition dharma” led to the crisis, on Saturday along with his senior party colleagues called on the DMK chief at party headquarters 'Anna Arivalayam' to resolve the issue.
"In the case of difference of opinion, it has been decided that the TNCC and DMK presidents will resolve it and other leaders from both the parties need not air their views," said Alagiri after the meeting.
Reiterating his stand that there were no issues or differences between the two parties, Alagiri said both the parties had always been united and would continue to be so.
He downplayed DMK leader Duraimurugan's remark that Congress had no vote bank, saying the leader had expressed his view and there was no problem with it.
Alagiri exuded confidence that his party's alliance with the DMK would continue even beyond the 2022 Assembly polls.
Following the deliberations with the Congress team, Stalin urged leaders of both parties to desist from airing their views in public to end haggling and avoid its recurrence.
The DMK chief, recalling the origin of the recent differences, said Alagiri had issued a statement that Congress was allocated a lesser number of president and vice-president seats (in indirect polls) to head district panchayats and panchayat unions.