Cong leader downplays Nehru's call to go solo in local body polls

Congress leader Karate R Thiagarajan on Saturday sought to downplay senior DMK leader K N Nehru's call to go solo in local body polls and said that the final call has to be taken by their party chiefs."I do not know how a senior DMK leader spoke like that. DMK president M K Stalin and our party leader have to take a call on such things," south Chennai Congress president Thiagarajan said here.He said that Congress may not have been "No. 1" but it was certainly a deciding factor in the Lok Sabha elections."Next week, there is a no-confidence motion in the Assembly against the Speaker and the Congress' seven votes are crucial. We are going to support the DMK's resolution," he said.He said that senior leadership of their parties shares a very good relationship, which was seen when Stalin invited UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to unveil Karunanidhi's statue.The Congress leader further said: "Over 30 Congress MLAs supported the last DMK government in the state."Earlier in the day, DMK's Nehru