Alliance at ‘breakpoint’: CPI,CPI(M) ’smash’ AIADMK boycott call
By chennaivision at 25 July, 2009, 9:39 am
Chennai, The Left parties’ brief honeymoon with the main Opposition AIADMK in Tamil Nadu virtually ended today with the CPI(M) and CPI, deciding to ignore AIADMK’s boycott call and contest the August 18 bypolls to five assembly seats.
Predictably, the CPI(M) State Secretary N Varadarajan and CPI State Unit Secretary D Pandian, after chairing their parties’ respective state executive in Tiruchirapalli, jointly announced that they would contest the bypolls.
They said the CPI(M) would contest from Thondamuthur and Cumbum, while the CPI would field candidates in Bargur and Srivaikuntam.
A ”friendly party” has desired to contest the Ilayangudi seat, they said, but refused to name that party.
”It is their decision”, they said when asked about the AIADMK’s decision to boycott the bypolls on the ground that the by-elections would not be free and fair.
However, the two other allies of AIADMK- PMK and MDMK have decided to toe the line of the AIADMK and boycott the bypolls.
AIADMK Supremo J Jayalalithaa, after chairing her party’s executive meeting in Connoor last week announced that the party would not contest the by-elections this time.
With DMK at the helm of affairs in the state, the Election Commission would not be able to conduct the bypolls in a free and fair manner, she alleged, adding that the party’s decision had been conveyed to MDMK. She also said she would convey the same to PMK and the two Left allies.
However, the boycott decision taken by the AIADMK has not found favour with the Left parties as they decided to field candidates and face the elections.
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