Expelled members can appeal to AICC panel: Thangkabalu

The wargames continued in the Tamil Nadu Congress with some expelled members rejecting TNCC chief K V Thangkabalu's advice on Monday that they could appeal to the AICC disciplinary panel against their expulsion. "Thangkabalu keeps changing his statements. He first claimed he had full powers to expel us, but now he says that we can appeal to the party's disciplinary committee in Delhi," former Chennai deputy mayor 'Karate' R Thiagarajan said, adding, "Let him follow procedure and issue a show cause notice and then we will give our reply".

Cong workers heckle Thangkabalu for backing DMK

Factional trouble within the Congress in Tamil Nadu is escalating over the key issue of continuing the alliance with the ruling DMK for the assembly election due next year. In the latest round of tussle, some Congress workers gheraoed the TNCC president KV Thangkabalu in Erode on Sunday, demanding that the party snap ties with the DMK and lead a separate front in the polls.