Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa
on Monday reiterated that her party would go it alone in the 2014 Lok
Sabha elections and said the party was aiming to win all 40 seats in
Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
But she described Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who was elevated as the Chairman of the
Campaign Committee of the BJP, as her good friend and she said she had
good wishes for him.
Talking to journalists here on
Monday after attending a a Union Planning Commission meeting, Ms.
Jayalalithaa, answering a question on alliance, said: “I’ve already
stated very clearly several times and I repeat in your (media) presence
that my aim, the aim of the AIADMK, is to win all the 40 seats, 39 in
Tamil Nadu and 1 in Puducherry. So where was the question of an
alliance?”
On the developments in the BJP, she said,
“Whatever happened is purely an internal matter of the BJP. Politically,
I don’t think it would be proper for me to make any kind of comment on
it. But at a personal level, I will only say that Mr. Narendra Modi is a
good friend of mine, my good wishes are always for him and whether he
wins the election in Gujarat or whether he achieves an elevation in his
own party, I am happy for him.”
Rajya Sabha polls
About
the ensuing Rajya Sabha polls, for which she had already released names
of her party candidates for five out of six seats, she said whatever
she wanted to say had already been said in a statement. “I have nothing
more to add”.
She refused to comment on her meeting
with CPI leaders A.B. Bardhan and D. Sudharakara Reddy here, who called
on her to seek the AIADMK’s support for their candidate. Mr. Bardhan
merely told journalists after the meeting: “She (Ms. Jayalalithaa) told
us she has declared (her candidates for) five seats and hopes to win
those five. She wished us well for the election.”
She also informed them that the AIADMK would not have many extra votes to share.
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