Cong to appoint new PCC chief in Tamil Nadu

“Elangovan had resigned recently. His resignation has been accepted,” said party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi.  Congress, which had contested 41 seats as part of the DMK-led alliance, could manage only eight of them and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is understood to have expressed his displeasure over the result. 

“Our party’s state unit chief submitted his resignation on June 15 itself as electoral results were not on expected lines,” a party functionary VR Sivaraman, a confidant of Elangovan, had said on Saturday. Factionalism in the party surfaced in the backdrop of the resignation of Elangovan with aspirants lobbying for the top state unit post. Several names are being suggested for the TNCC chief post.