Chennai (20.08.2023): A Dalit face of the Congress Sasikanth Senthil (IAS: 2009: KN) is likely to head the Tamil Nadu unit of the party. The term of the incumbent president K.S. Alagiri has already come to an end.

TNCC is divided into three camps with the one led by the incumbent president Alagiri and the second helmed by the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Selvaperuthungai and the third that supports the candidature of Sasikanth Senthil. Senior Congress leaders of the state have briefed the AICC that replacing Alagiri with a more dynamic and vibrant Sasikanth Senthil would do a lot of good for the Congress party.

Senthil was one of the key election strategists for the Congress in the recent Karnataka assembly elections where the party wrested power from BJP. He is also now in charge of electioneering in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and many state leaders are preferring such a dynamic and young leader to head the party in the state.