After DMK President MK Stalin has announced the party's candidates to all the three seats for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections without keeping the allied parties on the fray, Indian National Congress, one of the allied parties is been upset over the pick and expressed the regret to DMK leaders in Delhi, reports say.

The pick has presented the surprise to the national party more than it surprised some of the leaders in the DMK's camp. The Congress party was vying with the hope that it could reserve a berth in Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu this time as it thought that the DMK would consider Congress party's nomination to the upper house of the Parliament. However, the hope was diminished on Sunday after Stalin named the party's candidates for all the three seats through which he directly avowed to the allied parties - not this time.

According to the reports, Sonia Gandhi, the interim president of Congress party has directly reached out to TR Baalu, the DMK's Lok Sabha leader and expressed her displeasure for not considering Congress's request to nominate its candidate to Rajya Sabha. Gandhi has also spoken with DMK MP Kanimozhi and pressed her dissatisfaction over the DMK's leadership decision of declining the Congress's request.

The reports stated that Sonia Gandhi has spoken with Baalu after the Election Commission of India (ECI) issued notification of Rajya Sabha elections to award a ticket to Congress party. Rajya Sabha elections have become the test place of Congress-DMK alliance. It was not the first time the DMK has denied the request from Congress. In previous Rajya Sabha elections in 2019, the Congress lobbied with the DMK to bestow the upper house ticket to re-nominate former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from Tamil Nadu. However, the DMK has ignored the request from the Congress and awarded a ticket to MDMK Chief Vaiko by citing the agreement between the DMK and MDMK to provide a Rajya Sabha ticket during 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The reports say that DMK has declined the request from Congress this time by conveying that the party is ought to send its own candidates to Delhi with the view of state legislative elections 2021. Stalin has agreed to take favorable consideration in the next Rajya Sabha polls. After learning that Congress won't be given a ticket this time, Sonia Gandhi expressed her dissatisfaction with Kanimozhi. The reports have stated that Sonia Gandhi has been skeptical and doubtful over the DMK's commitments towards the alliance. 

In December 2019, when Tamil Nadu rolled out the rural local body polls, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee Chief KS Alagiri has directed accused the DMK of violating the coalition dharma during the polls and the DMK has rebutted Alagiri's claims and the Dravidian party has also skipped the alliance party meeting that was organized by the Congress against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the DMK's absence had spurred up the displeasure among the alliance that has now come to the picture after DMK has denied the requests from the Congress party. On Sunday, Stalin has named Tiruchi Siva, NR Elango, and Anthiyur Selvaraj as the party's candidates and all three candidates would be getting elected only if DMK has its support from Congress MLAs in the assembly.

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