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There is no scope for third front in TN
Chennai, June 17: Janata Party president Dr Subramaniam Swamy today ruled out a third front in Tamil Nadu for the next Lok Sabha polls.
Chennai, June 17: Janata Party president Dr Subramaniam Swamy today ruled out a third front in Tamil Nadu for the next Lok Sabha polls.
He told a press conference here today that he had reliable information that the Congress and DMK would strike an alliance for the polls. Left and other parties would be in the combine, he said.
He said that the BJP would be isolated in the state as the AIADMK would contest the polls on its own.
"There is no scope for a third front in the state," he said.
The DMK president M Karunanidhi's demand for a probe into the treatment given to the Union Minister Murasoli Maran at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and the Apollo hospitals here was only to get out of the NDA, he alleged.
He said that the Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa had every right to criticise Pope John Paul II for his remarks on the law banning forcible religious conversions. As the author of the act, she had to defend it, he said.
On the Ram Janma Bhoomi issue, he said if the ASI found out that there was no evidence of temple at the disputed site, VHP had no right to build a temple there. If there was evidence of a temple there, Ram Temple should be constructed there, he said.
If the VHP continued to go ahead with its plan of building a temple at the site, the Centre should declare the area as 'disturbed area' and hand over the same to the army, he said.
He said that the BJP would be isolated in the state as the AIADMK would contest the polls on its own.
"There is no scope for a third front in the state," he said.
The DMK president M Karunanidhi's demand for a probe into the treatment given to the Union Minister Murasoli Maran at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and the Apollo hospitals here was only to get out of the NDA, he alleged.
He said that the Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa had every right to criticise Pope John Paul II for his remarks on the law banning forcible religious conversions. As the author of the act, she had to defend it, he said.
On the Ram Janma Bhoomi issue, he said if the ASI found out that there was no evidence of temple at the disputed site, VHP had no right to build a temple there. If there was evidence of a temple there, Ram Temple should be constructed there, he said.
If the VHP continued to go ahead with its plan of building a temple at the site, the Centre should declare the area as 'disturbed area' and hand over the same to the army, he said.
Bureau Report