New Delhi: While the speculation over mid-term poll looms large at Centre, cracks seem to have developed in the Third Front.
AIADMK supremo and former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa said on Sunday that she wondered whether the newly formed grouping of regional parties existed at all and if her party is part of the alliance.
Her remarks followed a statement by Samajwadi Party’s Amar Singh – also a member of the breakaway faction - that the UNPA backs an alternative mechanism to look into the views of political parties in case a JPC on the Indo-US nuke deal failed to take shape.
“Singh's statement must be treated as his own individual opinion,” she was quoted as saying in a release.
She also said that in her letter to a newspaper 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.
(With PTI inputs)
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