Chennai, Dec 19: Notwithstanding the current strain in ties, the BJP today said it wanted the DMK to continue in the NDA for the next Lok Sabha polls. BJP Tamil Nadu unit president C P Radhakrishnan told reporters here that his party was waiting for the outcome of the high power committee meeting of the DMK here tomorrow, in which the party's relationship with the BJP would be discussed. Asked whether BJP would go in for an alliance with the AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls, he shot back saying "how could one think of going for an alliance with the AIADMK when the BJP was in alliance with the DMK.
He said Tamil Nadu BJP leaders would be calling on party leaders at New Delhi after the parliament session to discuss about the party's alliance issue for the next Lok Sabha polls.
He said the party's state level conference would be held in Chennai in January, for which the Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and president M Venkaiah Naidu would be invited. The party had already held conferences in 123 assembly constituencies.
He, however, termed DMK president M Karunanidhi's reaction to BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu's recent statement on DMK's December 15 picketing agitation as "politically motivated".
Naidu had described as "motivated and unhealthy" the DMK's state-wide agitation organised to condemn certain policies of the state and central governments, while being in the government.
Bureau Report