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    TNCC chief offers to resign amid ruckus

    Amid a ruckus triggered by a factional feud at a party meet, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president Su Thirunavukkarasar on Tuesday told a gathering of party leaders that he was ready to step down from his post.

    TNCC chief offers to resign amid ruckus
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    Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president Su Thirunavukkarasar

    Chennai

    Addressing district Congress functionaries and leaders of party wings at a closed door meeting, he said he had informed All India Congress Committee Secretary Sanjay Dutt that he was willing to step down, highly placed party sources said.  Thirunavukkarasar said a whispering campaign was on in a “section of the media” against him that party leaders Sanjay Dutt and Chinna Reddy (AICC Secretaries) were on a visit here to “enquire into complaints” about him. “I told him (Dutt) if that is the purpose for which you have come... tell me I will step down,” Thirunavukkarasar told the gathering amid silence in the presence of Dutt and former TNCC presidents EVKS Elangovan and KV Thangkabalu.

    The TNCC chief asserted that “it is false propaganda” and must be avoided. “Is that (looking into complaints) is the mission ?..it is not his (Dutt) mission. He has come here to help and develop the party. My full cooperation is for the central team,” he said.

    The TNCC chief said he was appointed by Rahul Gandhiji and should be treated as such. 

    His outburst comes against the background of a running feud with Elangovan, who recently said Congress has a good future in Tamil Nadu if the former went back to the BJP.

    The acrimony reflected on Tuesday when loyalists of Elangovan tried to barge into the meet, held for specific office-bearers, leading to a ruckus.

    The meet was held to guide partymen on state specific outreach campaign to take on the Centre on Rafale deal. 

    Expressing anguish over being unnecessarily targeted as hobnobbing with the AIADMK, the TNCC chief asserted that he had “not even once said that an alliance with the DMK is not needed. I even declared that Stalin will be the Chief Minister. I visited Kalaignar (Karunanidhi) everyday when he was in the hospital,” he said and asked more could be expected of him.

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