It is too early to say at this moment. Severalinteresting options would emerge after the elections.
No, I said that the elections would open upvarious interesting options and not that I am open to all options.
I can spell it out clearly after the first twoweeks of campaigning. Things should emerge in bold relief by then. Right now our 20 seatsmay appear to be a small number, but it may be a very significant number after May 10,1996.
It was the most painful decision in my life. Thesole issue before the people is: should the Jayalalitha regime be allowed to be re-electedfor a further period of five years. Our position is an emphatic ‘no’. We toldthe party high command repeatedly not to entertain the AIADMK. Last year at the Madurairally, the Prime Minister gave us the assurance that our sentiments would be respected.The way he received Rajnikant and other leaders opposed to Jayalalitha gave us theimpression that he was also against her arrogant way of governance. When he decided toalign with her, Moopanar and others, including me, thought that we could explain the highcommand’s decision to the cadres and opt out of the election process. But when wereached Madras and saw the reaction of the party workers and the general public, we had noother choice but to act the way we had acted. The Congress workers were angry and feltbetrayed. But I must say that as far as running my ministry was concerned, the PrimeMinister had given me full freedom.
Yes. In retrospect I think so. This government iscorrupt, this government is fascist, this government is undemocratic and this governmenttrampled upon the human rights of the people. Probably the slender majority in Parliamentmay have been the major deterrent against acting against the Jayalalitha government.
