The BJP's Tamil Nadu President Tamilisai Soundararajan Tuesday claimed DMK was in touch with her party for a possible post-poll tie-up, a statement that received sharp rebuke from M K Stalin, who asked her to prove her statement or quit politics.
Soundararajan's remarks in this connection were made before reporters at Tuticorin in the presence of AIADMK leader and Tamil Nadu Food Minister R Kamaraj.
BJP and AIADMK had faced the April 18 Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu as allies.
The BJP's claim comes a day after TRS supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekara Rao met DMK President Stalin here as part of his outreach to regional parties in his bid to stitch up a federal front, sans the BJP and Congress.
Asked about reports of Stalin being in talks with BJP, Soundararajan said "that is true" and laughed.
"Because on one side (Stalin allies with) Rahul (Gandhi), Chandrasekhar Rao on the other, and (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi on another side," she said.
"All know DMK changes colours," she said in an apparent reference to the Dravidian party forging alliances.
BJP ally AIADMK also claimed DMK was in talks with the saffron party.
Senior party leader and Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar said DMK "will talk with Congress, Rao and at the same time with BJP."
Soundararajan had uttered a "blatant lie", he said and charged the BJP with "sowing confusion" as it was "on the verge of defeat."
He recalled that Rao had met him last year too, and even on Monday, and that the DMK had made it clear their meeting was a "courtesy call."
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