"The election process is going very, very smoothly. Negotiations are ongoing, and we are going to start on February 22. Nothing the BJP is thinking will happen. The BJP wants to pull someone out of the INDIA alliance to split the vote bank, but it will not happen. We are intact with the a
State President of the Manithaneya Jananayaga Katchi (MJK), Thamimun Ansari, has requested that Congress party members not speak on social media but rather put their demands for shared governance at the Arivalayam or Sathyamoorthy Bhavan.
Speaking to ANI outside Parliament, Hibi Eden said eight Congress MPs have been suspended, but the party will continue its protest both inside and outside Parliament.
"Rahul Gandhi ko kya mirchi lagti hai? Piyush Goyal asked in Hindi. The minister said the government would have preferred to present the matter in Parliament but was compelled to address the media due to what he described as unruly behaviour by opposition parties, including the Congress,
"We have started the election process. Tomorrow, our incharge Girish Chodankar is coming. We are only focusing on the 2026 assembly election...," Selvaperunthagai told ANI.
"Kanimozhi has gone to Delhi to meet Rahul Gandhi. As far as I am concerned, whether the Tamil Nadu Congress leaders want to continue in the DMK alliance or not remains a question mark today. Cracks have emerged within their alliance," Nagendran said.
BJP Leader Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday stressed that there is no trust between the Indian National Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), further outlining that the alliance might not even survive till the 2026 Elections.
AIADMK General Secretary and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami raised questions about the stability of the Congress party within the DMK-led alliance, citing growing speculation that the Congress may exit the alliance.
With the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections approaching, Congress MP Manickam Tagore sought to dispel speculation about any rift within the INDIA bloc in the state, asserting that the Congress and the DMK remain firmly aligned and committed to their long-standing partnership.
"There can be nothing more shameful in a democracy than what the Congress, DMK and TMC MPs did. They got on top of the table of Secretariat employees who sit before the Speaker and raised slogans. They turned violent," Dubey said.
Bihar Deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary hit out at the Congress and DMK, saying the Mahagathbandhan alliance only insults and abuses the people of Bihar. He was reacting to a Bihar Congress post on X and DMK leader Durai Murugan's statement.