India, May 8 -- A DMK spokesperson in Chennai, in response to the Congress's decision to back Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), said that "the INDIA bloc is gone". Though the DMK hasn't formally announced its departure from the Opposition platform, the sentiment within the DMK is strongly against the Congress move. That has consequences for the INDIA bloc since the DMK, with 22 MPs, has been a key player in Opposition politics, especially in Parliament, and the Congress is the largest Opposition party with 99 seats. The DMK's importance for the INDIA bloc is not limited to the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu; the Dravidian major has been a consistent and vocal champion of the ideological agendas that the Opposition alliance has rai...