Jayalalitha's views will not hit alliance: CPI

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, AUG. 26. The AIADMK general secretary, Ms. Jayalalitha's latest assertion on the non-feasibility of a coalition rule in Tamil Nadu was no cause for rift in the secular alliance led by her, the state CPI said today.

While CPI sources feel that Ms. Jayalalitha's remarks at a function here recently, did put the TMC, advocating power- sharing, in a tight spot, the issue was more one of protocol niceties than anything else.

Contending that the AIADMK was entitled to its views on one-party rule, as much as the TMC was to its outlook on 'Kamaraj rule' or power-sharing to have more accountability, CPI sources said that what possibly made the occasion embarrassing for the TMC president, Mr.G.K. Moopanar, was the AIADMK leader's articulation of those views on a platform shared by most of her allies.

It was a sort of a `public snare' that none was prepared for, even more so the TMC which would have to do some explaining to its other friendly parties, CPI sources reasoned and was hopeful that Mr.Moopanar's long innings in politics was itself the best guarantor against any knee-jerk reaction by the TMC.

Sources said that as far as the Left parties were concerned, the `frightening proliferation' of caste-based outfits wanting to `graduate' themselves into political parties, posed a grave threat like the communal forces to democratic politics.

Hence the `basic political issue' in Tamil Nadu, in the Left's view was to ensure that no room was given for the casteist/communal forces to enter the political arena and derail the process of secular consolidation.

With the DMK getting softer towards the BJP, `defeating the DMK- BJP combine' in the next Assembly elections was an objective that could not be lost sight of, CPI sources said, adding, that strategy was also `good for Tamil Nadu's future'.

The CPI, which incidentally has also called for a meeting of its state secretariat in Chennai on August 29, will discuss the latest political situation in Tamil Nadu, even as it continues to strongly hold the view that the shape of Government formation (after the Assembly elections) would depend on the poll mandate.

Meanwhile, the CPI's agricultural wing, expressing serious concern at the depleting water storage level in the Mettur reservoir and the `inaction' of the state PWD department, urged the Government to immediately press Karnataka to release Cauvery waters as per the Tribunal's award.

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