Politics of expediency: Mani Shankar Aiyar slams Cong's TVK tie-up decision
Politics 08 May, 2026

Politics of expediency: Mani Shankar Aiyar slams Cong's TVK tie-up decision

Business To Business, New Delhi, 8th May, 2026:  Veteran Indian National Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday termed his party’s decision to ally with Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu as “dreadful”, describing it as “politics of expediency” and an “unforgivable violation” of Mahatma Gandhi’s principle that “Swaraj should be a government based on morality”.
Speaking to the press, Aiyar said such “politics of expediency” was not the way forward for the Congress.
The former Union minister criticised the party’s decision to shift support immediately after contesting the Assembly elections alongside the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and align with the TVK, which had contested directly against the Congress in several constituencies.
He said the move to enter into a political arrangement with the very party that “took us on in the 23 assembly segments we lost and the five we won only days ago” was “dreadful”.

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