Overview
- Deputy general secretary I. Periyasamy said Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is firm that there will be no coalition government in the state.
- Congress leaders including Manickam Tagore and AICC in-charge Girish Chodankar have renewed calls for a share in power ahead of the March–April assembly elections.
- Periyasamy’s remarks mark the first formal public rejection of the demand for a coalition within the DMK-led alliance.
- Reporting indicates the stance places pressure on Congress to either drop the demand or reconsider its position in the DMK front.
- Since 1967, Tamil Nadu governments led by DMK or AIADMK have typically been single-party, with 2006 seeing DMK govern with outside support but without sharing ministries.