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Pass anti-Jayalalithaa resolutions, TNCC chief tells partymen

By Our Special Correspondent

Chennai June 14. A day after the AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, once again ruled out an alliance with the Congress if it projected Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial candidate, the TNCC president, S. Balakrishnan, today came up with a tit-for-tat strategy. He has asked all Congressmen to adopt resolutions condemning the Jayalalithaa Government at all their meetings and despatch copies to the AIADMK leadership.

The TNCC chief, in a statement, told his partymen that it was the duty of every Congress worker to oppose the "arrogant" attitude of the Chief Minister. From now on, all Congressmen should not stop with orally condemning her Government but adopt resolutions and swamp the AIADMK leadership with copies.

The Congressmen would not rest until the "anti-people" AIADMK Government was thrown out, he said.

Condemning Ms. Jayalalithaa's repeated assertion that the Congress chief could not become Prime Minister, he said the people of Tamil Nadu would not forget the heart-rending scene of Ms. Gandhi and her children, arriving in Tamil Nadu to receive the body of her slain husband, Rajiv Gandhi. But, Ms. Jayalalithaa, who rode to power on the sympathy wave generated by the assassination, claimed, with no sense of gratitude, that she came to power on her own popularity, said Mr. Balakrishnan.

Reacting to her remarks against Ms. Gandhi, the AICC secretary, G.K. Vasan, said the Chief Minister should give up her "inferiority complex" and devote attention to providing good governance.

In a statement, Mr. Vasan said it did not behove of the post held by Ms. Jayalalithaa to repeatedly talk about the nationality of Ms. Gandhi. Tamil Nadu was a backward State in several respects, particularly the problems faced by farmers and weavers. Government employees had announced an indefinite strike and law and order had deteriorated. These issues had not been resolved. The people would not tolerate the repeated criticism of the Congress leader, said Mr. Vasan.

In Pondicherry, Jean Pourani, chairperson of the Congress mahila wing, urged Ms. Jayalalithaa to refrain from making comments against the nationality of the Ms. Gandhi. Party volunteers would stage a massive protest against Ms. Jayalalithaa ``if she keeps on indulging in unparliamentary and undemocratic comments'' questioning the nationality of Ms. Gandhi, she said.

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