CHENNAI, Jan. 4 -- Having failed repeatedly in its attempt to regain the power which it lost to the DMK in 1967, the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee has devised a strategy to address the discontentment among the leaders and cadre of the party in the State. Saturday saw the All India Congress Committee appointing 344 office bearers to the TNCC to navigate the Grand Old Party in the upcoming election to the Legislative Assembly.
Since the leader of the alliance, the DMK, had made it known that it would contest at least 200 assembly seats out of the 234 at stake, it is not known how much the Congress would be allocated during the seat sharing exercise.
"The defeats suffered by the Congress in the Bihar assembly election has weakened the party'...