At a time when political parties in Tamil Nadu are talking about providing an alternative to the DMK and the AIADMK, DMK MP Kanimozhi on Monday said that being the largest party, the DMK was the real alternative to the ruling dispensation and that it would come back to power after the 2016 Assembly elections.
She made it clear that the DMK was open to alliances. “Our leader has always welcomed an alliance and at this moment it is good for like-minded parties to come together to defeat the AIADMK,” she told The Hindu .
Asked whether acquittal of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case would work in favour of the ruling party, she said politically no significance could be attached to the Karnataka High Court judgment because of the controversy surrounding it. “Everyone in the country is talking about the judgment and many are shocked to see the error in calculating Ms. Jayalalithaa’s income. Public Prosecutor B.V. Acharaya has recommended an appeal against the judgment. So I do not think this acquittal means has political significance to the ruling party,” she said.
Ms. Kanimozhi said the AIADMK government’s “failure on all fronts” in the last four years and the paralysed government machinery would be the main planks of the DMK’s election campaign.
“I cannot remember one singe industry that has come to Tamil Nadu in this government. On the contrary, the industrial units brought to the State during the DMK rule are leaving for better administered States, “she alleged.
