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Congress candidate from Sivaganga Lok Sabha seat, Karti Chidambaram, criticised former Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress Sam Pitroda's controversial statement and said that the party has distanced itself from his comments.
"He is not the head of the party, not the Prime Minister of this country and not the president of a party. He has resigned from his position. The party has distanced itself from his comments," Chidambaram told ANI. Sam Pitroda ignited a firestorm while speaking on the diversity of India, referring to how people in the South "look like Africans, those in the West look like Arabs and those in the East look like Chinese." After his remarks caused a major political furore in election season and embarrassed the Congress, Sam Pitroda resigned as chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress on Wednesday. Chidambaram further expressed confidence in winning all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. "The alliance is going to win in Tamil Nadu. We are going to win all 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. The INDIA alliance, of which the DMK is leading, will win all 39 seats," he said. Chidambaram also served coconut water and cut fruits for the people as the temperature rose in the city. Karti Chidambaram, the son of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, is seeking a third term in the Lok Sabha from Sivaganga, a traditional Congress stronghold. All 39 seats in Tamil Nadu polled in the first phase of the general elections on April 19, and the counting of votes will be done on June 4. In the 2019 general elections, the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance, comprising the Congress, VCK, MDMK, CPI, CPI(M), IUML, MMK, KMDK, TVK, and AIFB, registered a landslide victory, winning 38 of the 39 seats. The Congress bagged 8 seats out of the nine contested. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on the other hand, won only one seat. While Congress candidate V. Vaithilingam won the only seat in the Puducherry Parliamentary Constituency. (ANI)
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