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Swamy disputes Congress claim

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, MARCH 3. The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, has disputed the Congress contention that the Jain Commission, which inquired into the circumstances leading to the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, exonerated the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in its report.

Dr. Swamy said it was wrong to say that the Commission gave a clean chit to the DMK in its report.

The Commission, which indicted the DMK in its first report, had made it clear in its second report that it would not deal with aspects that had already been dealt with in the first report and would go into the conspiracy aspect only.

He said the Congress and its president, Sonia Gandhi, were doing "great injustice" to Rajiv Gandhi by having an alliance with the DMK, the Pattali Makkal Katchi and the the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which were extending support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its leader, Prabakaran, who was found guilty in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Dr. Swamy said that he would be contesting from Madurai in the Lok Sabha elections, while the party would extend its support to the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in other constituencies, except Periyakulam. According to him, T.T.V. Dinakaran, the AIADMK candidate for Periyakulam, was a non-resident Indian from Singapore.

The party would launch its election campaign from Madurai on March 20. If he was elected, he would work for a third front in Tamil Nadu to defeat the Dravidian parties in the next Assembly election.

Referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party's "feel-good factor", he said the voters were not impressed by the economic performance of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance despite the media blitz and that was why the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, was undertaking a "ratha yatra" from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

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