<p>Hinting at a political realignment ahead of Assembly elections due next year in Tamil Nadu, senior DMK leader M K Stalin today said formation of an alliance to take on the ruling AIADMK was in the offing.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Certainly, an opportunity to form an alliance is in the offing. When elections get nearer, it will come out openly", he told reporters here after calling on MDMK leader Vaiko.<br /><br />Stalin, who met Vaiko at the latter's residence here and invited him for the marriage of his brother's son, was responding to a question whether there was a possibility to form an alliance to take on the Jayalalitha-led AIADMK before next polls.<br /><br />Vaiko, whose party contested the Lok Sabha polls last year as a partner of NDA but snapped the ties later, said Stalin came to invite him for the marriage to be held next month.<br /><br />"It is a happy day. We have been friends for several years. Definitely, myself and other MDMK senior leaders would attend the marriage," he said.<br /><br />This is the first time in the last over eight years Stalin, son of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, has called on Vaiko, who broke away from DMK to form his own party MDMK in 1991.<br /><br />Incidentally, the two leaders had met after a gap of eight years at a wedding in the family of PMK founder leader Dr S Ramadoss in October last year, which was welcomed by DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, who also said then that he would be happy if a new alliance materialised.<br /><br />Stalin, also the DMK Treasurer, has been inviting leaders of political parties, including rivals such as NDA ally DMDK founder Vijaykant, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief E V K S Elangovan, for the marriage of his younger brother M K Tamilarasu's son Arulnithi, setting of speculations that DMK was eyeing a new front.<br /><br />Asked about the AIADMK Government completing four years in office, Stalin took a dig at the AIADMK saying there was nothing worth to mention, as people faced only "worries" and "pains".<br /><br />He reiterated DMK's demand for a CBI inquiry into alleged corruption by some ministers and other ruling AIADMK men, including former minister Agri Krishnamoorthy, arrested in connection with the "suicide" of an official in agriculture ministry.</p>
<p>Hinting at a political realignment ahead of Assembly elections due next year in Tamil Nadu, senior DMK leader M K Stalin today said formation of an alliance to take on the ruling AIADMK was in the offing.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Certainly, an opportunity to form an alliance is in the offing. When elections get nearer, it will come out openly", he told reporters here after calling on MDMK leader Vaiko.<br /><br />Stalin, who met Vaiko at the latter's residence here and invited him for the marriage of his brother's son, was responding to a question whether there was a possibility to form an alliance to take on the Jayalalitha-led AIADMK before next polls.<br /><br />Vaiko, whose party contested the Lok Sabha polls last year as a partner of NDA but snapped the ties later, said Stalin came to invite him for the marriage to be held next month.<br /><br />"It is a happy day. We have been friends for several years. Definitely, myself and other MDMK senior leaders would attend the marriage," he said.<br /><br />This is the first time in the last over eight years Stalin, son of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, has called on Vaiko, who broke away from DMK to form his own party MDMK in 1991.<br /><br />Incidentally, the two leaders had met after a gap of eight years at a wedding in the family of PMK founder leader Dr S Ramadoss in October last year, which was welcomed by DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, who also said then that he would be happy if a new alliance materialised.<br /><br />Stalin, also the DMK Treasurer, has been inviting leaders of political parties, including rivals such as NDA ally DMDK founder Vijaykant, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief E V K S Elangovan, for the marriage of his younger brother M K Tamilarasu's son Arulnithi, setting of speculations that DMK was eyeing a new front.<br /><br />Asked about the AIADMK Government completing four years in office, Stalin took a dig at the AIADMK saying there was nothing worth to mention, as people faced only "worries" and "pains".<br /><br />He reiterated DMK's demand for a CBI inquiry into alleged corruption by some ministers and other ruling AIADMK men, including former minister Agri Krishnamoorthy, arrested in connection with the "suicide" of an official in agriculture ministry.</p>