Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and CPI leader AB Bardhan on Sunday announced the AIADMK-CPI alliance for the upcoming 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier in January, J Jayalalithaa had announced a 'whirlwind' campaign to ensure AIADMK wins all 40 seats in the state. She had sought the support of the people to abandon the archrival DMK and Congress in the coming polls for "betraying the people" of Tamil Nadu.
Addressing party supporters in Kothagiri, the party supremo had hit out at DMK and its chief M Karunanidhi, saying her mentor had floated the party primarily to root them out.
"I request you to work with the aim to ensure that DMK and Congress, who have been constantly betraying the people of Tamil Nadu, do not get a single seat in the coming Lok Sabha elections," said Jayalalithaa.
Accusing Karunanidhi of doing little for the state's benefit and showing scant regard for the Sri Lankan Tamils, she had said that he had for "namesake" used the issue to walk out of Congress-led UPA in 2013. But he had approached the former ally for its support to ensure the election of his daughter Kanimozhi to Rajya Sabha. She also added that if he really had concerns for Tamils, his party should have quit the UPA alliance in 2008, when India provided military assistance to Sri Lanka in its fight against rebel LTTE, or the next year when hostilities peaked, resulting in increased civilian Tamils casualty, she said.
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