NEW DELHI: TAMIL NADU Congress President K.Ramamurthy and Congress Legislature Party leader S.R. Balasubramaniam met party President and Prime Minister P.V Narasimha Rao on Feb.15 and posted him with the latest situation regarding the State party’s relations with the AIADMK.
Rao conferred with them for nearly over 45 minutes and later asked them to be on hand here, apparently for further consultations.
Ramamurthy and Balasubramaniam were summoned by the Congress high command to report on the estrangement in relations with the alliance partner, AIADMK.
Meanwhile, according to party sources, the Congress President is keen on continuing the alliance with the AIADMK, The party leadership is said to have taken the view that there are no ideological differences between the two parties at the national level and the differences at the local level should be sorted out amicably.
The alliance was struck for a period of five years in the first instance. The Congress leadership does not favor its dissolution midway on the ground of local In Madras, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Motilal Vora, one of the Congress high command’s emissaries to salvage the Congress AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu, said on Monday that he had apprised Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Rao of the outcome of his efforts. Vora told newsmen at the airport that following the emissaries’ report, Rao had summoned TNCC President and CLP leader to New Delhi for talks.
Declining to comment on the developments in the Capital, Vora said, he had come to the city now to oversee the TNCC organizational elections.” The scrutiny committees for screening membership applications would meet for three days starting from February 17, he added.
According to a Congress spokesman Chandulal Chandrakar, the party president will now consider the assessment given by the two leaders in the light of the report given by former Chief Minister Motilal Vora and Union Minister of State for Welfare K.Thangkabalu.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 19, 1993
