“Had joined hands in the past”

State Dairy Minister and AIADMK leader K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji on Friday hinted that the ruling party may not be averse to aligning with the BJP for the upcoming local body polls.

When journalists asked him here if the AIADMK and BJP were holding talks on forming an alliance, Mr. Bhalaji said he was unaware of it.

However, he added that there would be nothing wrong in the ruling party aligning with the BJP for the local body polls.

“[Prime Minister] Modi is only striving to make India a super power... Why do we have to look at him with a narrow mindset,” he asked.

“They [BJP] haven’t done anything wrong. Both of us [AIADMK and BJP] had joined hands for parliamentary elections in the past. We have been part of BJP government and so was the DMK (which had) Ministers in the BJP (NDA) regime, isn’t it? And the BJP has now turned bitter (for DMK),” he asked.