Thursday, February 19, 2009

Jaya asks Congress to sever ties with DMK, join AIADMK

NEW DELHI: In an apparent move to woo Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa said Congress should dump DMK and dismiss the Karunanidhi govt in Tamil Nadu.

"No one can save DMK anymore. DMK's chapter is over. But, if the Congress thinks that it can lift and rescue DMK from the quicksand it has fallen it will also get caught and sink," Jayalalithaa said at a party function, reported PTI.

In significant remarks apparently aimed at Congress, Jayalalithaa said "those who will come with us will gain and those who will not be with us will lose."

She said she was giving this suggestion to Congress for the sake of old friendship.

The AIADMK has had tied-up with the Congress in the past and is now allied with the Left parties and the MDMK for the coming elections.

In the last Lok Sabha elections, the DMK-led alliance, which included Congress, Left, MDMK and PMK, swept all the 39 seats blanking out the AIADMK-BJP alliance.

Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Jaya-asks-Cong-to-sever-ties-with-DMK-join-AIADMK/articleshow/4154549.cms