Chennai: The Congress Party in Tamil Nadu would fight the 2021 Assembly elections with a view to forming a government under the Chief Ministership of DMK President M K Stalin, said Dinesh Gundu Rao, who was recently appointed by the AICC as ‘In-charge Tamil Nadu,’ on Thursday.
Rao, who was on his first visit to the State after taking up the new responsibility, told the media that the Congress-DMK alliance was very strong and would sweep the elections.
Later, in a statement, he said: ‘Our leader Shri Rahul Gandhi had expressed his desire to see Shri Stalin as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu during the campaign for 2019 Lok Sabha elections.’
Several top leaders of the TNCC held talks with the new AICC observer on party affairs and Rao himself had planned to hold discussions with district leaders of the party.
He told the media that the BJP was a tyrannical party…