By IANS,
Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged AIADMK members to work hard and ensure the party’s victory in all the 40 seats (39 in Tamil Nadu and one in Puducherry) in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The AIADMK general secretary made this appeal in a letter to party cadres on the eve of AIADMK founder and former chief minister M.G. Ramachandran’s 96th birth anniversary Thursday.
Jayalalithaa said the party should work for victory in all the 40 Lok Sabha seats so that the state’s just demands be met and the party has a say in decisions taken by the central government.
She charged DMK chief M. Karunanidhi of influencing the Congress, its alliance partner in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre, to act against the interests of Tamil Nadu including on the issue of Cauvery river water row with Karnataka.
Jayalalithaa said the DMK is also trying to defame her government with the help of the central government.
She said the DMK is using its clout in the central government to deny allocation of additional power and kerosene, and asking it not to notify the Cauvery Water Dispute Tirbunal’s final award.
Terming the UPA as a minority government, Jayalalithaa charged the Congress of acceding to DMK’s pressure of denying financial assistance to Tamil Nadu.