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Alliance with LTTE supporters a Himalayan blunder: CM

By P.V.V. Murthi

TIRUVANNAMALAI, MARCH 13. The All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader and Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, is sticking to her campaign theme of the Congress alliance with political parties which supported the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

At a meeting here last night, in support of her party candidate R. Rajalakshmi Rajan for the Vandavasi Lok Sabha seat, Ms. Jayalalithaa said the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, allied with those who revelled on hearing the news of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. The allies included the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which was indicted by the Jain Commission which went into the Rajiv assassination case; the Pattali Makkal Katchi, which eulogised Dhanu and Sivarasan, killers of Rajiv Gandhi; and the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which claimed that it supported the LTTE yesterday, supported it now and that it would continue to support it tomorrow.

"Is it proper for Ms. Sonia to ally with such parties? Will Rajiv Gandhi's spirit pardon her?", Ms. Jayalalithaa asked. Ms. Gandhi's act was a Himalayan blunder. She described such an alliance as "unprincipled''

On her way to Tiruvannamalai from Vellore, the Chief Minister campaigned at Kannamangalam for the Vellore candidate, Paiyyur A. Santhanam, at Polur for the Vandavasi nominee, Rajalakshmi Rajan, and at Kalasapakkam for the Tirupattur candidate, K.G. Subramani.

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