Chennai, Aug 18: The Executive Committee of the ruling AIADMK, meeting here today, is likely to discuss and take a decision on BJP's decision to seek the support of the party on the no-confidence motion being moved by the Congress Party in the Lok Sabha today.
The twice-postponed meeting will come handy for the AIADMK leader, Jayalalithaa, to take her party colleagues into confidence on this crucial matter, party sources said.
The AIADMK is not a partner of NDA at the Centre now. The meet, which was originally called for Aug 4, was postponed to Aug.11 and again to Aug.18, due to 'unavoidable circumstances' as Jayalalithaa put it.
The meeting assumes significance as, of late, the BJP and the AIADMK were in agreement on several national and state-level issues, with former lavishing praise on the ruling party of the state.
Significantly, speaking to newsmen in Thanjavur, M Karunanidhi, President of the DMK, which is a constituent of the NDA at the Centre but not seeing eye-to-eye with BJP in Tamil Nadu, has kept others guessing on how it will vote in the Lok Sabha when he said that his party had not yet taken any decision on the state unit Communists' appeal to vote against the no-confidence motion.


Bureau Report