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Tamil Nadu chief minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M Karunanidhi Saturday said the National Democratic Alliance had shut its door on the Tamil Maanila Congress once and for all and there was no room for talks with that party again.
Addressing presspersons at the Madras airport, Karunanidhi said TMC general secretary Alagiri who held talks with senior DMK leader P T R Palanivel Rajan and Madras Mayor M K Stalin on the alliance, had later dismissed the talks as ''casual'' in nature. Now, there was no chance of any alliance talks with that party.
The DMK would ask the people to choose between the ''fair and corruption-free'' DMK government and a ''corrupt'' government, apparently referring to the AIADMK.
Karunanidhi said seat sharing talks with constituents of the NDA would begin in a couple of days. The DMK's election panel led by Electricity Minister Arcot N Veerasamy would hold talks on behalf of the DMK.
When newsmen drew his attention to a report that the Bharatiya Janata Party was eyeing 45 assembly constituencies, of the 62 it had identified, he said ''I do not want to react to such news items, which tend to create confusion in the minds of alliance partners.''
On the mushrooming of casteist parties, the chief minister said it was not a healthy development. The DMK government had sympathetically listened and redressed the grievances of all castes during the last five years, he said.
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