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'Congress has been reduced to a fringe party'
The New Indian Express
|April 11, 2024
THE Congress has been reduced to a fringe party, along with people who shout separatist slogans, and they're happy to be there, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in an interaction with TNIE.
She was responding to a question on the BJP's limited presence in the southern states.
An animated Sitharaman, who is known for her plain speaking, did not take kindly to the notion that BJP has not been able to make inroads into the South. She was quick to point out that the Congress, another national party, has been equally ineffective in southern states - especially in Tamil Nadu, where the Congress has been playing second fiddle to the DMK.
This story is from the April 11, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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