DMK Snaps Alliance With Congress for the 2014 Lok Sabha Polls Sunday Dec 15,2013

  

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi on Sunday Dec 15,2013 said his party would not align Congress in the Lok Sabha elections next year,accusing the Congress of being an “ungrateful” ally

 

Addressing the DMK General Council in Chennai, DMK leader M. Karunanidhi said the party would go it alone rather than teaming up with ungrateful Congressmen, who, he charged, ignored the DMK and never gave it due respect

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi said he was not upset because the former Union Minister, A. Raja, and party MP Kanimozhi were arrested in the 2G spectrum case, but there was an attempt to embroil the DMK itself in a great scandal. 

“They have created an impression as if A Raja alone is responsible for every thing. They also kept Ms. Kanimozhi in jail for eight months. Though they [the two] have not done anything wrong, they had been forced to face the trial''

“Do not think that we will forget all these and align with the Congress.”  

 The DMK leader also said his party was betrayed by the Congress on the Sri Lankan Tamils’ issue and it was not able to protect Tamil fishermen subjected to attacks by the island Navy

 The announcement signals the end of a decade-old relationship between the two parties

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi, who devoted much of his speech to launching a tirade against the Congress, also made it clear that the BJP today was not the same as it was under the leadership of the former Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee.