T.N. CM silent on PM's desire to resign

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JULY 31. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa, today declined to express any definitive opinion on the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee's desire to resign.

``Let us wait and watch the situation,'' was her reply when asked about it at the Secretariat here. Referring to Mr. Vajpayee's remark that he could not enforce discipline among the NDA partners, the Chief Minister said that perhaps it might be an emotional statement by the Prime Minister.

On the alleged involvement of personnel in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in the UTI scam she said she did not have any information.

She refused to react to the allegation in some newspapers that she was instrumental in the appointment of Mr. P.S. Subrahmanyam as the UTI Chief in 1998, when the AIADMK was a constituent of the Central Government. When a reporter posed the question to her, the Chief Minister sidestepped it by asking the mediapersons ``whether they had any other questions''.

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