PMK's Feb 15 meet will decide on ties with BJP

NDA's Tamil Nadu ally PMK today said its party meeting on February 15 at Salem would decide the fate of its ties with BJP.
"A decision (on ties with BJP) will be taken at a party executive committee meeting in Salem on February 15," PMK chief S Ramadoss told reporters here to a query on his party's support to the BJP candidate in Srirangam bypoll.
PMK's ties with the BJP has come under strain following its unceasing criticism of the Union government over a host of issues, including "Sanskritisation" and "imposition of Hindi."
When MDMK quit the NDA alliance last December, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had said PMK too should quit NDA.

Minister of State for Shipping and senior Tamil Nadu BJP leader Pon Radhakrishnan had also said that there would be no impact even if PMK exited the alliance.
Against this background, while PMK said it would neither contest nor support any other party for the Srirangam bypoll, state unit BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan had said PMK and all other parties opposed to corruption should support her party's nominee in the bypoll.
Other NDA allies, including DMDK, had expressed support for the BJP nominee, she had said.
Ramadoss reiterated his party position, saying that "even if BJP leaders meet me, I will be only telling them the same thing.