No truck with DMK or AIADMK, says Vaiko

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, SEPT. 1. The MDMK will have no truck either with the DMK or the AIADMK in the coming local bodies elections as both these parties have ``moved away from Dravidian principles,'' the MDMK general secretary, Mr.Vaiko, said here today.

Talking to newspersons, Mr. Vaiko said the party would work for an alternative front in the State to uphold the principles for which the MDMK was formed. Asked whether he would initiate talks with the PMK which had taken a similar line, Mr. Vaiko said it depended on the situation prevailing at that time.

The district units of the party, he said, had been directed to assess the party's prospects in their areas and submit reports to the high command. Subsequently the high command would send a team to the districts to receive applications from prospective candidates.

Expressing the party's serious reservation about the Centre's directive to the State Government on three police officers' transfer, Mr. Vaiko said it was a ``blatant interference'' in the State's powers.

While the party was for taking action against the police officers if they had violated human rights, it was against their ``punitive transfers'' done without the concurrence of the State Government.

As a party which strongly believed in regionalism and state autonomy, it had expressed its opinion in this connection to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister.

On the AIADMK Government's 100-day rule in the State, he said there was not much to speak of. The Ministers, who were not sure of their position, were afraid to take any decision. They were being treated as ``bonded labourers'' by the Chief Minister, which was not good for the State.

The midnight arrest of the DMK president, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, and attack on pressmen showed the ``intolerant'' attitude of the ruling party, he said.

The MDMK would hold a demonstration before the Chennai Metro water office on September 18 for its ``failure to provide sufficient drinking water'' to the people in the city.

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