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Jaya rules out alliance with BJP

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalitha Thursday scotched rumours that her party might align with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In an informal chat with the media at the AIADMK headquarters in Madras, she said her meeting with the political analyst Cho Ramaswamy, which fueled the rumours, was only a meeting between old friends.

'The issue of alliance between the AIADMK and the BJP did not come up for discussion at all', she said.

She also denied reports that the AIADMK had diluted its stand that it would not share power with any other party after next year's assembly polls, if the AIADMK front was voted to power. The reports that appeared in the media were due to 'misquoting' of some of her remarks, she said.

The AIADMK would win the elections hands down and form a ministry on its own, she said.

Asked whether she would be able to contest next year's assembly polls as she had been convicted in the Tansi land deal case and sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment, she said 'wait and see'.

Even if she did not contest the elections, her party would win the elections, she said.

Jayalalitha evaded a direct answer to a question whether her close friend Sasikala Natarajan, who was also sentenced in the Tansi case, would be fielded in the elections. She said it was for the party's parliamentary board to select candidates for the polls.

Jayalalitha also ruled out the possibility of a third front emerging in Tamil Nadu. 'There is a possibility for a third front at the national level, but there is no scope for it in Tamil Nadu', she said.

She said her party was prepared to align with other parties, who had an agenda of defeating the DMK in the state. 'We welcome all parties, which were interested in defeating the DMK', she said adding that 'you can name our front as mega alliance or anything you like', she said.

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