Chennai (PTI): Maintaining that she never invited Congress to join he party, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Thursday said that she only wanted it not to get stuck in the "DMK quick sand".

"I had not asked the Congress to join the AIADMK for the Lok Sabha polls, but only advised them not to get stuck in DMK quick sand because of our past relationship," she said. Claiming that people would vote against the DMK-Congress alliance in the coming Lok Sabha polls, she said, "this will be realised by the Congress only after the polls".

Ms. Jayalalithaa's recent remarks asking the Congress to snap ties with the DMK and recalling her party's good relations with it in the past had fuelled speculation that it was an overture for revival of their alliance.

The AIADMK chief, in a statement, also denied a charge by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday that she strived hard to get publicity from the reported views of some Congress workers favouring an alliance with the AIADMK during their interaction with AICC General Secretary Gulam Nabi Azad on Monday here.

Both the DMK patriarch Mr. Karunanidhi and Azad had earlier this week strongly affirmed that their alliance was intact.