The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), an ally of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhgagam (DMK), has suggested that the DMK should consider power sharing with its allies and sew up a formidable alliance to take on the AIADMK in 2016 Assembly elections.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday after the party’s district organisational elections, IUML State president K.M. Kadher Mohideen said the DMK would be able to unite all major Opposition parties if it considered the power-sharing formula as majority of them aspired for power.
Stating that there was no room for third front in the State, he said as the DMK and the AIADMK together shared more than 75 per cent of the vote bank and only the front led by one of the two parties would win the elections.
“It will be a cake walk for the AIADMK if the DMK could not bring all the Opposition parties under its fold,” he said. The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) may reconsider its stand on forming the third front, if the DMK offered to share power, he added.
Mr. Mohideen said the party would not contest the R.K. Nagar by-election and toe the line of DMK on offering support to a candidate fielded against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. The party’s State secretariat would meet in Chennai on June 5 and formalise its decision, he said.
It was unfortunate that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has become the ruling party at the Centre after securing just 32 per cent of votes. Accusing the BJP of acting against the interest of 20 crore Muslims and other minorities, he said the country would not grow if the BJP sidelined the minorities.
DMK will be be able to unite all major Opposition parties, says Kadher Mohideen
