'Two opinions' in AIADMK on alliance with Congress

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, JULY 14. The TNCC president, Mr. E.V.K.S. Elangovan, today said ``two different opinions on the alliance with the Congress existed within the AIADMK''.

Speaking to the media here, he said the AIADMK leader, Ms. Jayalalithaa, after meeting the Congress president Ms. Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, said the alliance ceased to exist after the May 10 Assembly elections. But recently, when an AIADMK delegation called on Ms. Gandhi, it claimed that the alliance would continue.

Mr. Elangovan said the Congress would like to contest a `significant' number of seats in the local bodies elections and would not accept the seat-sharing formula based on which it contested the Assembly polls in alliance with the AIADMK. It would be ready to either go it alone or contest in alliance with like-minded parties if the AIADMK refused to accept the demand for more number of seats. ``We will also make known our intention to the high command.,''On the Raman Commission, appointed by the Tamil Nadu Government to go into the arrest of the DMK chief Mr. M. Karunanidhi, and the alleged police high-handedness against two Union Cabinet Ministers, Mr. Elangovan asked the former Chief Minister to cooperate with the panel so that the `truth could be known.'

Asked about the ``Government pressure'' on and police ``threat'' to Cable TV operators asking that the footage on the arrest of Mr. Karunanidhi be telecast in the cable net-work, Mr. Elangovan said he did not know the exact details of the order. He, however, said that in the last six to seven years, the cable operators had been subjected to `arm- twisting' by one government or another.

Brushing aside the recurrent `groupism' within the State Congress, Mr. Elangovan said he had already briefed the high command on the activities of a few leaders who joined the Congress from the TMC.

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