AIADMK to decide on pulling the rug from under the govt
The allies of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham-led front will meet in Madras on Thursday to decide whether or not to continue support to the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
The meeting follows AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalitha's announcement yesterday that the front would review its support to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government if the latter failed to notify and submit before the Supreme Court the original draft scheme on the Cauvery water issue on August 12.
Dr Subramanian Swamy, president of the Janata Party, a constituent of the front, told the media he had suggested that the front pull out of the BJP-led government and work towards an alternative government.
But he stressed that it was up to Jayalalitha to take a decision in consultation with her allies.
The AIADMK and its allies together command a strength of 27 MPs in the Lok Sabha, excluding the BJP, which has three members from the state.
Swamy said if the AIADMK-led front withdrew support to the Vajpayee government, he would urge President K R Narayanan to unfurl the national flag on the ramparts of Red Fort on Independence Day since the BJP-led government would be reduced to a minority.
Never in the history of independent India had a caretaker prime minister or a prime minister without a majority in Parliament unfurled the tricolour, he said.
Swamy, who has claimed that the Vajpayee government would go by August 15, endorsed Jayalalitha's allegation that Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had betrayed the state's interests, allowing the original draft scheme to be diluted in exchange for an assurance that he would not be prosecuted on the basis of the Justice Milap Chand Jain Commission report.
UNI
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