TN Congress sends notice to Karti Chidambaram

Seeks explanation for his remarks against the party and for taking a new initiative without seeking approval from the high command

The Tamil Nadu Congress president today sent a show cause notice to Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, seeking explanation for his remarks against the party and for taking a new initiative without seeking approval from the high command.

“Today, I had sent a show cause notice to Karti Chidambaram asking him to explain his conduct in criticising and also making certain remarks against the party high command. He needs to reply within a week, failing which, he will be sacked from the party,” TNCC president EVKS Elangovan told reporters here.

“If someone has hesitancy in expressing their views to me, they are free to go to party president Sonia Gandhi herself. But, it will not be appropriate to discuss party issues in the media,” he said.

Elangovan also pulled  up Karti Chidambaram for taking a new initiative termed ‘G67’ involving party workers and termed it as “anti-party activity and groupism”.

In an interview to an English daily Elangovan said Karti Chidambaram did not seek the permission of the party leadership before taking the initiative.

Meanwhile, Karti Chidambaram said, he was yet to receive the notice sent by the Congress Tamil Nadu president.

Responding to Elangovan’s allegation, he said, “he (Elangovan) didn’t enquire properly and he didn’t even know what I spoke. He sent the notice in an urgency. Will respond to the notice once I receive it”.

Through ‘G67’, Karti Chidambaram is trying to bring together the generation born after 1967, the year the Congress lost power in the state, to modernise the party’s outlook, according to his update on the social media.

Karti Chidambaram contested last year Lok Sabha’s election from the Sivaganga constituency on a Congress ticket, after his father decided not to contest. However, he lost the election.