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Nearly three years after snapping ties with the Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi said on Monday that the national party would be invited to join the alliance led by his outfit for the upcoming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.
"We will not exclude Congress while inviting alliance parties (to join the DMK-led alliance)," he told reporters when asked if his party would invite the Congress like it had reached out to the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam.
An indication to this effect had come as early as in July this year when DMK treasurer M K Stalin and Congress state unit chief E V K S Elangovan had said that the two parties would 'work together' to protect the interests of the people of Tamil Nadu, in particular the oppressed sections.
DMK had in early 2013 snapped ties with Congress over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
The rupture had also come against the backdrop of the arrests of former Union minister A Raja and Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP, in the alleged 2G spectrum allocation scam.