Cong dumps Stalin, joins Vijay

Strains visible as DMK responds with a ‘backstabbers’ jab BJP says Oppn bloc will collapse soon MP says alliance made to keep ‘communal forces’ out of power

- PREETHA NAIR @New Delhi

IN a move that could redraw political equations in Tamil Nadu and test opposition unity at the national level, the Congress has severed its decades-old alliance with the DMK and extended support to actor-politician Vijay’s TVK to form the government in the southern state.

While the party stressed that the support would be conditional, it has also hinted at a longer association with TVK.