JOIN USThe former Tamil Nadu chief minister, whose AIADMK is in an alliance with Left parties, PMK and MDMK in Tamil Nadu and is expected to do well in the polls, said she would decide on her strategy after consulting her allies.
“Overtures are being made by many parties but I am not responding right now,” Jayalalitha told reporters here after casting her vote, and reiterated that she “preferred” to wait for the results on May 16 when she would proceed to Delhi to decide further moves.
Replying to another question on JD(S) chief H D Deve Gowda’s statement that the Third Front would remain, she said she would not comment on any such statements now.
The AIADMK chief said if the polls are held in a “free and fair manner” in Tamil Nadu her party-led alliance “will sweep the elections.”
She also complained about the “manipulation” of electronic voting machines across Tamil Nadu and “bogus voting” in the Central Chennai constituency while appealing to officials and police to help build confidence in the public to enable them to vote.
“In a polling booth in Triplicane (in Chennai), voters who came at 7 am found a group of DMK rowdies casting votes. On seeing the same group of men coming in and out of the booth at regular intervals, the public chased them away.” According to her, if the AIADMK-led front does not win the elections in the state it will be due to “these kinds of activities”.
Election Commission officials said AIADMK leaders have met poll officials and urged them to take preventive actions.