The News Minute| November 3, 2014| 12.35 pm ISTAfter hectic parleys, Tamil Nadu Congress leader G K Vasan has decided to call it quits, and has announced that he is forming a new political party. Vasan's announcement came after he met his supporters in Chennai who have been demanding for the past few weeks that it was time for Vasan to quit the congress. Three out of five Congress MLAs in the state also attended the meeting."People of Tamil Nadu want a change. A new path has been set. We will start a new political movement. The name and flag of new outfit will be revealed at a meeting in Trichy," Vasan announced.Vasan also insisted that the All India Congress Committee was always against the Tamil Nadu unit. When asked about what prompted his decision, Vasan said, "I'm deeply worried about Congress in Tamil Nadu which has not been in power for the last 47 yrs. we'll prove there is a strong Congress in Tamil Nadu."Vasan says that he has the support of many senior Congress leaders in the state.G K Vasan was expected to revive his father's party, the Tamil Maanila Congress, but the new party will mostly probably have a different name.Read- Don't be a prodigal son, return to the party: TN Congress tells GK VasanTamil Maanila Congress was a party formed in 1996 by Congress leader in Tamil Nadu G K Moopanar, protesting against the AICC's then decision to align with the AIADMK during the polls. One of Moopanar's biggest supporters then was P Chidambaram, who had left the INC to join Moopanar's Tamil Maanila CongressMuch has changed since 1996, Chidambaram and Moopanar had a fallout in 2001 and Chidambaram went ahead to form Congress Jananayaka Peravai. In 2002, TMC lead by Moopanar's son GK Vasan merged with the congress, Chidambaram and his party followed suit in 2004.They may have gone back to the parent party, but GK Vasan and Chidambaram have always been wary of each other. Congress in Tamil Nadu has always been divided into camps, the prominent ones being the Chidambaram and Vasan camp.GK Vasan's move to form a new party will come as a severe blow to the already shattered Congress party in the state.Vasan had many reasons to move away from the Congress. A revived TMC, will give Vasan the option of aligning with any front lead by AIADMK, DMK and BJP for 2016 polls. The Congress' immediate future in Tamil Nadu is bleak and Vasan knows that staying on with the Congress will be suicidal.Though he was the Union Shipping Minister during the UPA II regime, Vasan's influence had been waning, his relation with Rahul Gandhi had reportedly turned sour over the past few months.The Congress TN state unit and the AICC had actively marginalised the Vasan camp, the last stroke was perhaps the decision to remove Kamraj and Moopanar's pictures from party membership cards. Vasan loyalist B S Gnanadesikan's resignation as the TNCC President was a clear enough indication that Vasan had perhaps made up his mind to revive his father's party.