PC says no to tie-up with Jaya,calls her ‘Modi’s friend’

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram ruled out any post-poll tie up with AIADMK saying that Congress differed with her on important issues.

Dubbing AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa as a ‘bundle of contradictions’,Union Home Minister P Chidambaram ruled out any post-poll tie up with her party saying that Congress differed with her on important issues and she cannot be accepted as a secular leader.

‘Jayalalithaa’s objective is not forming the Central government after the Polls. Her objective is to topple the Tamil Nadu government. How can Congress align with such a leader?’ Chidambaram told reporters in Karaikudi district on Thursday night.

Calling Jayalalithaa a ‘bundle of contradictions’ Jayalalithaa said he did not expect a situation wherein there would be an alliance between Congress and AIADMK.

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He said AIADMK was a party which supported ‘Karseva’ (on Ayodhya issue). “Jayalalithaa is a friend of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,who pursues anti-minority policies”. Chidambaram was replying to questions by reporters about Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi’s comments on the issue of post-poll alignment.

Claiming that the NDA was “finished”,Chidambaram said that,” Nitish Kumar (JDU) and Jayalalithaa (AIADMK) now faced the question (of options)”.

“UPA would get majority by itself. But if necessary and if like-minded parties come to its support (after elections) then they would take it. This is not new. The same view was expressed before 2004 also. All political parties are expressing the same view,” Chidambaram said.

“Even BJP expressed the same view. There is no controversy about it,” he said.