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JD out of AIADMK-led front

The Tamil Nadu unit of the Janata Dal has quit the AIADMK-led front in the state and is planning to negotiate with the Tamil Maanila Congress for a possible electoral alliance.

Stating this to reporters, TN Janata Dal President G A Vadivelu said he would meet TMC President G K Moopanar, in this regard tomorrow.

If the party was allotted a respectable number of seven to ten seats in tune with its presence in the state, the party would go in for an alliance with the TMC. If not so, it would go it alone.

Asked why the Dal had to leave the AIADMK-led front, Vadivelu said AIADMK supremo, J Jayalalitha, had expressed her party's inability to allot any seat but wanted the Dal to stay in the front. This was not acceptable to the party, he added.

On the crisis in the national party leadership, Vadivelu said the state unit was unanimous that it should support the section of the national leadership which was opposed to joining hands with the National Democratic Alliance.

The party state executive took the decision earlier in the day, he added.

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