CHENNAI: KS Alagiri will complete four years as the president of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC), longest by any Congressman in the last couple of decades in the state.

In a national party riddled with factionalism, Alagiri having such a long tenure and that too while overseeing a Parliamentary election, an Assembly election and two legs of local body elections in the state, is a remarkable feat. His tenure would be remembered for the party suffering fewer internal squabbles, a notoriety the party is famous for going by its recent history. Amid speculations of the party’s national high command contemplating a guard change at the TNCC helm for some time, Alagiri is steering the party through another bypoll for Erode East constituency necessitated by the demise of the party MLA.

From shedding tears in exasperation among party workers at Sathyamurthy Bhavan after holding seat sharing talks with alliance leader DMK during the 2021 Assembly polls to declaring the party’s candidature in Erode East without formal talks with Anna Arivalayam, Alagiri’s tenure has seen the worst and best in 4 years.

A Gopanna, TNCC head of the media wing said, “The high point of his tenure would be the organisation of the six-day tour by Rahul Gandhi and the launch of Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanniyakumari. The low would be the clash at Sathyamurthy Bhavan.”