In what could be seen as possible cracks developing in the recently formed United National Progressive Alliance, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa on Sunday wondered whether her party was part of the alliance or did the UNPA exist at all.
Referring to reports quoting Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh that the UNPA was for some other mechanism to take on board the views of all political parties in case the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal was not possible, the AIADMK leader said the UNPA, to her knowledge, had not evolved any such stand on the issue.
'Amar Singh is also reported to have stated that the UNPA had no quarrel with the decision to set up a UPA-Left Committee as the ruling combination can have its own consultative mechanism for allies and supporting parties, but there should be another mechanism for every political party to present its views. This is definitely not the view of the AIADMK and cannot be termed as the considered or collective view of the UNPA,' she said in a release in Chennai.
Jayalalithaa said this was not discussed with the constituent parties of UNPA, especially the AIADMK.
'Amar Singh's statement must be treated as his own individual opinion,' she said.
The AIADMK was for only one single mechanism for a national issue, 'which cannot permit promotion of any sectional view.'
Jayalalithaa also said that in her letter to a newspaper on Saturday, she had pointed out that Left parties did not invite her party to take part in a protest rally in Delhi against India's joint naval exercises with other nations, including the US.
'Only the SP and Telugu Desam Party had been invited to join the rally,' she said, adding that the two constituents of the UNPA did 'not even bother to inform the AIADMK about the demonstration or their participation in it.'
'All the above developments reported in the media made me wonder whether the AIADMK is still a part of the UNPA or whether the UNPA continues to exist as one entity at all,' she said.
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