Mor e than a contest between two regional parties, the Congress’ ally DMK’s rout in the Assembly election and AIADMK’s victory assumes national significance with regard to the corruption plank, BJP senior leader L.K. Advani said even as he claimed that the “situation” for reviving alliance with the AIADMK “had not yet come”.
“I regard this time the electoral victory of AIADMK has national significance because it has come at a time when there are allegations of corruption (at national level). Had it not been for Jayalalithaa’s victory, the lesson for people is that corruption will not matter,” he told mediapersons here on Sunday.
“I had told AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa that had it not been for her victory, the message would have been that corruption was not a matter for the common man,” he said, and added that he had congratulated her upon her victory.
On his party’s inability to secure even a single seat in the Assembly polls, he said it was “impossible” to succeed in a state polarised between two parties. But his party has brought bipolar politics into being at the national level.