Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) president G K Vasan denied reports that he was trying to get back to parent party Congress.
Speaking to mediapersons in Tiruvarur today, he said, “There is no question of merging TMC with Congress. We have created a situation that TMC is the real Congress in Tamilnadu. We are planning to contest in select places in local body elections and a decision on alliance will be taken after the election dates are announced.”
Earlier, reports said the former Union Shipping Minister, who quit the Congress in November 2014, met a senior Congress leader during his recent visit to the national capital.
Speculation about the return of Vasan, whose TMC bit the dust in the recent Assembly polls, gained momentum after his visit to the capital, where he camped for three days.
This is the first time that the TMC chief spent more than a day in the national capital after he re-launched the TMC in 2014.
However, sources in the TMC dismissed the suggestion saying there was no truth in the speculation. “It began after a senior leader of the party wrote a ‘get well soon’ letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi after she took ill. The letter was written as part of courtesies extended to leaders who take ill and there is nothing political in it,” a senior leader said.