India, June 16 -- The Congress on Tuesday responded to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)'s attack on Rahul Gandhi for allying with the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), asking Tamil Nadu's main opposition party to introspect and identify the reasons for its defeat in the assembly polls.

S Rajesh Kumar and P Viswanathan, the two Congress ministers in the TVK-led government, maintained that it was their duty to stand by the TVK, which remains firm on its secular ideology. "The DMK is crossing all boundaries and hurling abuses at the Congress and its leaders. It is criticising us, claiming that Congress won [five seats in the 234-member House] only because of the DMK and yet supported the TVK," Kumar and Viswanathan said in a statement....