Considering the sentiments and feelings of party workers, the DMK has decided not to attend a meeting of INDI Alliance on June 8 scheduled at Constitutional club in Delhi in which Congress will be a participant saying party workers could not be ignored in the wake of what it termed the Congress party’s conduct after the Tamil Nadu elections.
DMK PRESS RELEASE
DMK will not participate in the India Alliance meeting on 8 th , Congress after the assembly election betrayed DMK.
DMK will not participate the meeting as Congress is participating.
DMK will support national issues to the parties who are in the India Alliance. https://t.co/x3kEt3OImf pic.twitter.com/4wPoJkpIUJ— Suresh Kumar (@journsuresh) June 4, 2026
Days after TN Assembly poll verdict in May 2026, the Congress severed its more than two-decade old ties with DMK and joined actor turned politician’s Joseph Vijay’s TVK led government which could not get majority seats to claim to form government. Then after there have been war of words been the DMK and the Congress. To add fire raging fire, Congress which got one RS seat before the polls under the DMK quota has now bagged one from TVK. DMK feels it would strengthen the ‘dead party in TN and was riding others’ back” which would doom its future prospects.
To hide the negative baggage associated with the UPA name in public discourse, the opposition formed the INDIA Alliance, the latest avatar of the UPA, before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to take on the BJP and distance itself from the scam-ridden image of the UPA regime particularly Congress and DMK leaders.
After 2024 general elections, the cracks in INDI bloc are just widening, and the parties who formed that bloc all seem to be going their separate ways.
On May 4, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) said it will not take part in the INDI Alliance meeting to be held in Delhi on June 8. It is learnt that TMC and AAP would also not attend the meet.
INDI Alliance is conglomerate of contradicting political parties which have been decimated totally or partially in their own States come together only with a single agenda of “defeat BJP” at any cost. The partners in bloc have been viciously attacking each other in states while pretending to be together at the national level.
With one of the biggest parties in the bloc, DMK, skipping their meeting. is an indication that INDI Allaince will be given a silent burial.
The developments in West Bengal are being speculated that Mamata’s TMC is in verge of split and she would be removed of her party chief post soon. DMK leaders had earlier publicly called out Congress for the betrayal and backstabbing.
In a strongly worded statement, DMK party citing concerns over what it described as a “betrayal” by the Congress party following the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections the DMK said “In view of the sentiments of DMK cadres, who continue to feel deeply hurt by what they consider the betrayal committed by the Congress party against the DMK following the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections, and in respect of those sentiments, the DMK will not participate in the INDIA alliance meeting to be held in New Delhi on June 8, particularly as it is a meeting in which the Congress party will be taking part. While the DMK will not attend this meeting, it will continue, as always, to raise its voice on issues affecting the welfare of the nation that may be brought forward by the other parties participating in the meeting”.
The statement claimed “ the DMK said it had been at the forefront in opposing issues that it considers against democracy, secularism, and state rights, including NEET, delimitation, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls introduced ahead of elections, the Election Commission’s actions, One Nation One Election, the Waqf Act, and amendments to the FCRA law. DMK had consistently raised its voice against these issues in Parliament, the Tamil Nadu Assembly when it was in power, public forums, and courts”.
ஜூன் 8-ஆம் தேதி டெல்லியில் நடைபெறும் "இந்தியா” கூட்டணிக் கூட்டத்தில், காங்கிரஸ் பங்கேற்கும் கூட்டத்தில் திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகம் பங்கேற்காது!
அதே நேரத்தில் – இந்தக் கூட்டத்தில் இடம்பெற்றுள்ள மற்ற கட்சிகள் முன்வைக்கும் நாட்டு நலனைப் பாதிக்கும் பிரச்சினைகளில், திராவிட முன்னேற்றக்… pic.twitter.com/JrEF2ibKsG
— DMK (@arivalayam) June 4, 2026
At the same time, the DMK clarified that despite skipping the meeting, it would continue to support and raise its voice on issues concerning national interest and democratic values that are taken up by other parties in the alliance.
In an interview to media, former DMK Rajya Sabha MP TKS Elangovan says, “We are no more in the INDIA bloc, and that is why we are not attending the meeting…Congress stated that they are going with TVK and that they will fight the local body elections and the next parliament elections also with TVK. This means they are not with us. The Congress stated that they are parting ways with the DMK. Which means how can we continue in the INDIA bloc? That is why we said we are not going. They have five MLAs who have won in our alliance. We had given them a Rajya Sabha seat. After that, these MLAs did not even come and thank our leader. They said that we are going with TVK and said that we are no longer in the alliance with the DMK. Then it will definitely hurt the cadets. They have also worked for them. In 28 constituencies, they have worked for them…That is why we are not attending the meeting… Let us see how many parties of INDIA bloc are participating in the meeting…”
The strained relations between DMK and Congress become visible in Parliament. DMK MP Kanimozhi recently wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking separate seating arrangements for DMK MPs, citing the “changed political circumstances” following the split
DMK Youth Wing Chief Udhayanidhi Stalin accused the Congress of “stabbing the DMK in the back” after benefiting electorally from the alliance, and asserted that the Congress should “never” be trusted again.
