India, May 8 -- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday appeared to take a veiled swipe at the Congress after the party's dramatic political shift in Tamil Nadu triggered fresh questions over the stability of the INDIA bloc.

Sharing a photograph from his recent meeting with Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and another picture with DMK's MK Stalin, Yadav posted on social media: "We are not the ones who abandon each other in times of difficulty."

Though he did not name any party, the timing of the remark quickly drew attention in political circles, especially after Congress walked out of its long-standing alliance with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu and extended support to actor-politician Vijay's TVK....