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Chennai, Mar 10 (ANI): All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief Jayalalithaa hit out at her political rival Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Thursday by terming its seat sharing differences with the Congress for the upcoming Asembly polls in Tamil Nadu as a ‘farce’.

The real reason, she said, was the sharing of the spectrum loot.

“The farce has been played out. The cat is finally out of the bag. The truth is now there for all to see. The DMK and the Congress, which successfully shared the Spectrum loot between themselves, have ironed out all differences and come to an understanding on sharing of seats for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections,” said Jayalalithaa in a statement.

The AIADMK chief accused Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi of threatening to pull out only when his party’s interests were affected, and termed it to be a mere drama.

“The whole drama comes as no surprise to me. We saw this happen earlier, at the time of ministry formation at the Centre in 2009. Karunanidhi flew to Delhi. He put forth his demands. When the Congress leadership resisted, he flew into pretended rage. He returned to Chennai, apparently in a huff, with all his MPs in tow, boycotting the swearing-in ceremony of the Prime Minister,” said Jayalalithaa.

“The bluff paid off and Karunanidhi got plum ministerial berths for his son Azhagiri, his nephew Dayanidhi Maran and his favourite daughter’s close associate, A Raja!” she added.

Terming all this muscle-flexing to be mere drama, Jayalalithaa said: “When it comes to issues relating to the public — like when hapless, innocent Tamils are massacred in Sri Lanka; like when Karnataka refuses to give Tamil Nadu its due share of Cauvery water; like when Kerala refuses to implement the Supreme Court directive on Mullai Periyar; like when the Centre keeps repeatedly hiking petroleum prices precipitating a cascading effect on the prices of all products; like when Indian fishermen are massacred at sea; like when farmers driven into a debt trap are pushed to suicide — Karunanidhi never threatens to pull out of the Central Government.”

“He merely sends letters to the Prime Minister. But when he wants plum ministerial postings for his children and sundry relatives, when his near and dear ones are likely to be picked up by the CBI for siphoning away national resources, then Karunanidhi will put up a show of bravado citing some other reasons. And the Congress leadership will put up a show of defiance to fool its innocent grassroots cadres and then capitulate giving the impression that the week-long face-off was for the sake of two or three legislature seats!” she added.

The impasse between the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) over seat sharing for the upcoming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu came to an end on Tuesday evening with the former being allotted 63 seats.

The deal was announced after DMK Minister Dayanidhi Maran held two rounds of talks with Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee. (ANI)