During a press conference, Congress party’s former president Selvaperunthagai had raised the question, “How can an alliance be formed with those who do not accept Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate?”
Regarding this, Congress party’s Tamil Nadu in-charge and MP Praveen Chakravarty had criticized, “The TVK-Congress alliance is firm. There is no confusion about it. Who is Selvaperunthagai to speak about the alliance?”

In response to this, Selvaperunthagai wrote on his X page: “Someone who calls himself an intellectual asks, ‘Who is Selvaperunthagai to talk about an alliance?’ This is a continuation of the filthy, communal elitist mindset that led them to pour water and wash the stage after our leader had left in the northern state.
My question is: why have an alliance with anyone who does not accept the Honorable Leader of the Opposition of the country, Rahul Gandhi, as the prime ministerial candidate? That intellectual says the Chief Minister laughed and spoke for a long time in response.”
Is laughing and talking with you for a long time the agreement for continuing in the alliance? Fine, if the Chief Minister at least says just once that Rahul Gandhi is the prime ministerial candidate, that’s enough. The problem is solved. The Chief Minister doesn’t even have to say it; let someone in a senior position in that party say it. No, that too is unnecessary—did you firmly tell the Chief Minister, who laughed and spoke with you for a long time, that our alliance’s prime ministerial candidate is our leader Rahul Gandhi, and did he accept it and give you at least some assurance? If he did, then please say that at least.

If criticism is made in the Legislative Assembly about Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, or the BJP, why is it so quickly removed from the Assembly records? Next time you speak with a smile, ask the Chief Minister and tell me.
It is easy to enjoy a position obtained without effort. It is hard to work and build up the movement. The height of a position does not determine a person’s political stature; it is the work and dedication he has shown for the movement that determines it. Time will elevate many; the same time will also forget many.
But history will record the contributions of those who have sincerely worked for a great movement. The Congress movement is bigger than individuals. Its ideology is bigger than positions. Those who stand on the side of saying that the current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is the Prime Ministerial candidate and then throw stones at me for saying that my leader, Mr. Rahul Gandhi, is the Prime Minister ask me who I am.
I say this loudly. I am a Congress worker who wants Mr. Rahul Gandhi to become Prime Minister. With self-respect, he has angrily posted, “a son of this soil, an indigenous native.”
