Jaya angry over Rangasamys bid to form govt alone

Rangasamys decision to form a government on his own without sharing power with coalition partner AIADMK riled the Dravidian party that was aiming to be part of the government

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Raising serious doubts about the future of the alliance between Congress splinter NR Congress and AIADMK in Puducherry,AIADMK general secretary and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister charged her ally and counterpart N Rangasamy of betraying the pre-poll understanding they had about forming a coalition government.

Charging Rangasamy of not matching his words and deeds,AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa said the former Congressman who floated the splinter organisation complaining that his party had betrayed him,did the same betrayal to AIADMK.

We fought the last election together. During the campaign time,I had gone to Puducherry to seek vote for a coalition government under the leadership of Rangasamy…. The public voted for the coalition trusting the AIADMK and its leadership,and keeping in mind the promises made in the election manifesto, claimed Jaya on Thursday,strongly criticising the three time Chief Minister of being disloyal.

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Rangasamys decision to form a government on his own without sharing power with coalition partner AIADMK riled the Dravidian party that was aiming to be part of the government. The party won five seats to the territorial assembly.

The move to form government with the help of an Independent,a DMK rebel,without as much as even a word of intimation to the AIADMK was against the principles of coalition. It was a breach of trust…backstabbing by Rangasamy, Jaya said.

Even as the alliance reached near the point of no return,Rangasamy refused to comment on this latest development.

Having won 15 of the 30 constituencies and wooed the independent,the debutant AINRC has managed to secure power in the UT. Though it is too slender a margin to be comfortable,the opposition is fractured into Congress,AIADMK and DMK,making it difficult to mount a serious challenge.