The AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu and head of the party’s seat-sharing negotiation committee for the upcoming Assembly election, Girish Chodankar, on Sunday said the 25 seats offered by the DMK to the Congress was not acceptable. According to him, the committee is following the lead of the Tamil Nadu Congress leaders, who met party leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi recently. Mr. Chodankar said he hoped the party’s wish list, submitted to the DMK, would be accepted, as “only then we can continue with this (negotiations)”. Missing warmthMeanwhile, the “brotherly warmth” appeared to be missing in Mr. Gandhi’s birthday greetings to DMK leader and Chief Minister M.K. Last year, in a social media post, Mr. Gandhi had addressed Mr. Stalin as “my brother”, and the latter had thanked his “dear brother”.

Source: The Hindu March 02, 2026 01:16 UTC