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DPA will remain united: Stalin

Staff Reporter

`AIADMK move to split the seven-party alliance will not fructify'

COIMBATORE: Attempts by the ruling All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to split the seven-party Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA) alliance led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will not fructify, the DMK deputy general secretary, M.K. Stalin, said here on Saturday. He was talking to reporters after reviewing arrangements for the party's zonal conference scheduled for May 28 and 29.

Responding to a query on rumours about the split in the alliance in the wake of the DMK's defeat in the byelections to the Kancheepuram and Gummidipoondi Assembly constituencies, Mr. Stalin said the AIADMK had been making efforts to break the alliance from the Lok Sabha elections in 2004. "Their dream will not come true"."The Government shuffled top police officers and the police intelligence machinery is working on this assignment," he alleged.

`Misuse of official machinery'

Dubbing the AIADMK's victory in the bypolls as a result of the gross misuse of official machinery and money power, he said such a result would not be replicated in the general elections.

"As astrologers have advised the Chief Minister that polls in 2006 may not be in her favour, the State might go to polls before the end of this year," he said.

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