Cong slams DMDK's decision to go it alone in polls

Congress in Tamil Nadu today termed as "wrong" the DMDK chief Vijayakanth's decision to fight the Assembly election all alone.
"My friend Vijayakanth has taken a decision contrary to the expectations of the people and his party cadres. It is a wrong decision. After the outcome of election results he will realise that it was a wrong decision," state Congress Committee President E V K S Elangovan told reporters.
DMDK had earlier called itself the "real alternative" to both AIADMK and DMK and declared that it would go it alone in the polls.
Congress and DMK had last month forged an alliance to face the Assembly election together in Tamil Nadu.

Answering a question, Elangovan said talks were on with some political parties for a tie-up for the elections and such outfits have been asked to get in touch with the DMK leadership.
"I refuse to comment on it," Elangovan said when asked to comment on the Supreme Court commuting to life imprisonment, the capital punishment awarded to three persons in the case relating to burning to death of three college girls in Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu in 2000 following the conviction of AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa, who was then in the opposition.
He, however, added that the "curse of the kin of those killed in that incident will trounce AIADMK in this election."

Three girl students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore - Kokilavani, Gayathri and Hemalatha - died in the year 2000 after the bus they were travelling in was torched by the three men, who were later convicted in the case.