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N Sathiya Moorthy in Chennai
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday increased her attack on Sonia Gandhi by saying her party was responsible for the post-poll stalemate in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The intransigent attitude of the Congress and its president Sonia Gandhi is behind the impasse over ministry-formation in the state," she said in Chennai.
"The Congress is preventing the formation of a government in Jammu and Kashmir simply because it is not getting the chief ministership," she alleged.
"It is like the 1999 situation, when Sonia Gandhi forced a midterm election to the Lok Sabha," Jayalalithaa said, referring to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's withdrawal of support to the Vajpayee government.
"The Congress is ruling in many other states. Why can't it leave Jammu and Kashmir," she asked.
"The mandate of the people of the valley could not be fulfilled even though they braved bullets to uphold democratic traditions."
She described the current impasse as a "disgrace and slur on democracy" and disagreed with the Congress' claims that the party's victory in Jammu and Kashmir was a sign of Gandhi's greater acceptance across the nation. "Not at all. It has nothing to do with this."
She said the promulgation of the ordinance against forced conversions did not mean that the AIADMK and the Bharatiya Janata Party were coming closer.
She also declined Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna's proposal for talks to resolve the Cauvery issue.
The chief minister referred to the two contempt cases pending against Krishna in the Supreme Court. "The court is already seized of the matter and I cannot enter into a dialogue with him."
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