Except allies,parties skip DMKs meeting

Apart from Azad,NCPs Supriya Sule and D P Tripathi made a brief appearance at the seminar,which saw DMK bigwigs T R Baalu,Kanimozhi,A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran and VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan in attendance. While almost all DMK MPs and its ministers were present,Stalins brother M K Alagiri gave it a miss. But it was hardly surprising given the cold war between the two.

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief B S Gnanadesikan and a couple of party MPs too were present in solidarity.

Azad,who is also the Congresss in charge of Tamil Nadu,however did not gave any assurance to the DMK on its demand that New Delhi should support the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC. Despite the bravado as reflected in its attack of the UPA government in Parliament sources in the DMK said it is not thinking about parting ways with the Congress over the issue.

It is,however,unhappy over the continuing ambiguous stand of the government.