On Monday, Congress leaders were sporting 'we told you so' looks as actor C Joseph Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) emerged the single largest party in Tamil Nadu.
The Congress seriously considered dumping long-term ally Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and going with Vijay in the run-up to the election, HT has confirmed with at least three key party functionaries.
However, the party eventually decided to stay with Chief Minister MK Stalin, reasoning that Vijay's apolitical worldview didn't align with their ideas.
As the people of Tamil Nadu rejected the established Dravidian parties of DMK and AIADMK, opting instead to invest their hope in the newcomer, the Congress will again have to figure out how it went wrong with its calculations.
