Just after her party's stupendous victory in Assembly polls, Tamilnadu chief minister Ms. J Jayalalitha arrived in New Delhi on Monday to forge new equations with the centre. She would be meeting the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to discuss her state's power crisis and the problems faced by Indian fishermen.
This is the AIADMK leader's maiden trip to the capital since she assumed office as Chief Minister. Her visit is also being seen as her possible re-entry into national politics. This would naturally make DMK nervous as Congress-DMK dynamics are already on a shaky ground with the 2G telecom scandal and arrests of top DMK leaders causing a sharp strain between them.
Jayalalitha's meeting with the Prime Minister this afternoon is expected to be packed with financial demands and complaints of DMK's mismanagement of Tamil Nadu's economy. In her interaction with BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad and CPI's D Raja on Monday, Jayalalithaa was highly critical of the previous DMK government pointing to a Rs 45,000 crore deficit in the state electricity board and an overall state debt of Rs 1 lakh crore.
In her first visit itself, Jayalalitha may not be pushing for any alliances as she might be well aware of the reluctance of Congress to part ways with DMK, keeping latter's 18 MPs in mind. She would however look to engage the Centre on a range of issues, including resettlement of Tamils in Sri Lanka and to underline a pre-poll message that her rival is a spent force.
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