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I.N.D.I.A BLOC HOPES FOR UNITY DESPITE DIFFERENCES
The Sunday Guardian
|July 05, 2026
DMK and AAP backing on judicial issue revives hopes of opposition unity.
The decision of the DMK and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to sign the joint opposition INDIA bloc letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, despite staying away from the June 8 opposition meeting, has given fresh hope to other parties that they can still come together on several critical issues, including delimitation, if the matter comes up again in Parliament.
The M.K. Stalin-led DMK and the AAP had both kept away from the June 8 meeting held in the national capital over the issue of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the role of the Election Commission.
The AAP had exited the INDIA bloc in June 2024, soon after the Lok Sabha elections that year. Meanwhile, the DMK and the Congress came face-to-face after the grand old party decided to support actor-turned-politician Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) in Tamil Nadu.
The DMK and Congress had contested the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections together, but the SP Alliance failed to secure a majority.
The bad blood between the Congress and the DMK came out in the open after the grand old party supported TVK, with the Dravidian party accusing it of “betrayal and backstabbing”.
Sources in the Congress said that the DMK and AAP’s support to the joint letter sent to the CJI on June 28 indicates that they are willing to stand with opposition parties on several critical and important issues, especially to protect the Constitution and democracy.
This story is from the July 05, 2026 edition of The Sunday Guardian.
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