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CPI (M) not to have ties with AIADMK: Varadarajan

PUDUCHERRY: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) will not consider an electoral adjustment with the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam even if it decided to stay away from the Bharatiya Janata Party, central committee member of the party W.R. Varadarajan has said.

Responding to AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa’s remark that it was too early to talk about poll alliance with the BJP, he told The Hindu here that she always held the cards close to her chest. The way she “broke away unceremoniously” with the United National Progressive Alliance during the Presidential election was an indication that the AIADMK was steadily moving towards the BJP.

Her open support to the BJP’s stand on the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project and sending a message to the Viswa Hindu Parishad-sponsored conference in New Delhi to oppose the project, hailing Narendra Modi’s re-election in Gujarat and having a luncheon meeting with him in Chennai recently were all pointers that a BJP-AIADMK alliance was in the offing, Mr. Varadarajan said.

Recalling that many of the constituents of the National Democratic Alliance moved out of the combine after the debacle in the Lok Sabha poll in 2004, he said with the country moving towards the 2009 general elections, the AIADMK’s present move would help the BJP resurrect the fractured alliance. “The CPI (M) will not leave any stone unturned to prevent the BJP from staging a comeback to power at the Centre.”

Mr. Varadarajan made it clear that the CPI (M) would not forge ties with the AIADMK in view of its “authoritarian and anti-people attitude.”

The talk of a third front in the Tamil Nadu context alone by parties such as the Pattali Makkal Katchi and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam lacked credibility in view of their “ambivalent political stand.”

He criticised the Government for not making efforts to persuade the Sri Lankan Government to adopt the peace process.

He also flayed some pro-LTTE outfits in Tamil Nadu for openly supporting the LTTE and indulging in a “biased tirade” against the Sri Lankan Government and mainstream Sinhala political parties there.

The situation was further complicated by LTTE supporters choosing to operate from the State to help the outfit in securing essential supplies, including arms and ammunition, he added.

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