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By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, MAY 15. While promising unstinted support to the Congress government at the Centre, the DMK today decided not to be part of it. The party's executive committee, which met here today, decided to first study the approaches of the "Congress government headed by Sonia Gandhi" over a period of time before deciding on joining the government. The committee authorised the party president, M. Karunanidhi, to decide if and when the DMK would join the government. Answering queries, Mr. Karunanidhi declined to define a time-frame for studying the government and also refused to elaborate on the issues on which the performance of the government would be monitored. Mr. Karunanidhi asserted that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam "earnestly wished" the new government stability and said that the DMK would provide its full support. Supporting the government was not related to the DMK joining it, he said and pointed out that it was the DMK which had accepted the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, as the leader of the secular alliance before anyone else did. He did not agree with a proposition that the DMK was offering conditional support and chided a reporter for suggesting that he was bargaining for more. "If you had known me, you will not ask this question," he said. On the efforts at drawing up a common minimum programme (CMP), Mr. Karunanidhi said that a copy of the DMK manifesto would be given to the team firming up the programme. Would withdrawal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act be among the demands? "Should it not be," asked. In a resolution adopted at the meeting, the DMK demanded the resignation of "AIADMK rulers" for "having conspired to remove en masse names of voters." They should take responsibility for having committed "anti-democratic fraud" on the people, it said.
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