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Diversionary tactic

Sir, — This refers to your Editorial, `A diversionary issue' (Aug. 30). Strange are the ways of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, ever since her party captured power. Her recent moves are clearly designed to cosy up to the ruling NDA, though her arch rival, DMK, is still a member of it. That she is none too happy with the merger of the TMC with the Congress is clear. But to question the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin in the race for prime ministership is a bit too much.

The BJP has tried the same mantra but failed to stem the popularity of the Congress. It has floundered time and again to deliver people's expectations of good governance.

Instead of raising all sorts of non-issues, Ms. Jayalalithaa could do well by concentrating on matters concerning her own State.

D.B.N. Murthy,

Bangalore

Sir, — It calls for great astuteness for a politician to survive. Planning strategies and working out logistics are constant imperatives without which he or she is bound to be elbowed out to the wilderness. If Ms. Jayalalithaa suddenly decides to replay Ms. Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin card, it is part of a political game played to bring herself into the limelight. This is indeed a masterly stroke of hers, at the right time to think out and settle political realignments in the wake of the vital happenings witnessed in the Congress in the South. It is certainly not as if she may be unaware of the futility of any attempt at challenging the settled position in the legal Constitutional sense with regard to the issue. If the matter gets merely talked about again as a revivable controversy, that is all what would seem to be her purpose for the time-being.

A.N. Ganapathy,

Chennai

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