acceptable Girish Chodankar – Girish Chodankar, AICC in-charge of Tamil Nadu and head of the party’s seat-sharing talks committee for the upcoming assembly elections, on Sunday said the 25 seats given by the DMK to the Congress were not acceptable. “We have been associated with the DMK for a very long time. Whenever they were in trouble, we reduced our quota.

Now it is their turn,” he said. While the committee was scheduled to resume talks on Monday, DMK sources indicated on Sunday that it may not happen as Mr Chodankar has left for Goa.

In an interview to ANI, Mr Chodankar said the committees formed by the DMK and the Congress held discussions for an hour (on Saturday), and expressed hope that the Congress’s demands would be accepted. According to him, the committee is following the lead of Tamil Nadu Congress leaders, who recently met party leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi.

Mr Chodankar said he hoped the party’s wish list submitted to the DMK would be accepted, because “only then can we continue it (talks)”. Missing warmth Meanwhile, DMK leader and Chief Minister M. K.

The “warmth of brotherhood” seemed missing from Mr Gandhi’s birthday greetings. Stalin. Last year, in a social media post, Mr Gandhi had addressed Mr Stalin as “my brother”, and the latter had thanked his “dear brother”.

But this time, the greeting and response were formal, with the word “brother” conspicuously absent.