“Our party’s state unit chief submitted his resignation on June 15 itself as electoral results were not on expected lines,” party functionary V R Sivaraman, a confidant of Elangovan, told reporters. Congress, which contested 41 seats as part of the DMK-led alliance, could manage only eight of them.
Factionalism in the party surfaced in the backdrop of the resignation of Elangovan with aspirants lobbying for the top state unit post.