Are Congressmen competing with themselves to lose the Tamil vote?

'We are dealing with a sovereign country. It is not easy to march armies to a sovereign state', this statement ascribed to PM, Manmohan Singh this evening will lose Congress Tamil votes in TN. Earlier Rahul Gandhi's admission that post-poll, Congress may look towards Jayalalitha would have isolated the congress grassroot worker in the state from their DMK friends (if there are any such) forever.