The Congress party has hit back at the DMK for criticizing Rahul Gandhi, asking the Tamil Nadu opposition party to reflect on its own poll defeat.
Two Congress ministers in the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)-led government, S Rajesh Kumar and P Viswanathan, maintained that it was their duty to stand by the TVK, which remains firm on its secular ideology.
The DMK had attacked Gandhi for allying with the TVK, claiming that Congress won only five seats in the assembly polls due to the DMK's support.
Kumar and Viswanathan said the TVK formed the government with the Congress, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which contested the polls as part of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance.
The Congress leaders asked the DMK to identify the reasons for its defeat instead of criticizing the Congress.
DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai reacted to the statement, saying it is cynical for the Congress to lecture them on how to do the duty of an opposition party.
