Making it clear that the demands and threats made by the Union Ministers from Tamil Nadu did not tantamount to a run-up to the ouster, Naidu told reporters in Chennai that ``there is no question of dismissing the government''. However, he hastened to add that in future if there was a constitutional break-down in the State, the BJP government ``cannot remain silent''. Quite critical of the DMK government's failure to curb extremist elements and the delay in bringing them to book, he pointed out that the BJP State unit had already asked the DMK government either to govern properly or quit.

Asked if the repeated assertions by a few Union Ministers and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalitha would not amount to putting pressure on theVajpayee government to resort to the use of Art. 356 against the DMK government, he declared, ``Nobody can bring pressure on Vajpayee''. However, he said he saw nothing wrong in the AIADMK supremo's efforts to create a public opinion in favour of the dismissal.

Fielding a flurry of queries on the demand for dismissal of DMK government, he pointed out that the Prime Minister had categorically said that the BJP-led government would not misuse Art. 356. ``Whatever others say, Prime Minister's views alone matter in the issue'', he remarked.

On whether the party would pull up Union Power Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam for his observations that the Tamil Nadu would be relieved of the DMK government, despite the Prime Minister's assertions to the contrary, Naidu said: ``He (Kumaramangalam) is free to air his views. I will convey my views to him in person and I don't need to communicate it through the Press''.

To a query on whether the BJP government was collecting evidence on the DMK government's allegedfailure to stamp out the Islamic fundamentalist outfits, he said the government is alive to the situation. On the party affairs, he said that the new BJP president would be unanimously elected by May 2 when the party's national executive would meet for two days in the Capital.

Reacting to the tirade against his party at the AICC session, Naidu said that the Congress party's bankruptcy had been exposed. Instead of doing introspection and holding discussions on various issues haunting the country, the session had put self praise and mudslinging on others at the top of its agenda, he said.

There was no review of the poor showing of Congress in the Lok Sabha polls and sycophancy was ``back with a bang'' and as usual misinformation about BJP was at the top of its resolution, Naidu said.

He charged the Congress with ``ruling and ruining'' the country for 45 years and with deliberately bringing the RSS into controversy. People were sick and tired of its oft-repeated false propaganda against the RSS, hesaid.Even though Congress had termed RSS as a fascist organisation, in reality there could be no party more fascist than the Congress, Naidu said, adding that it was the Congress which had imposed emergency, gagged the press, censored information, put political leaders like late Jayaprakash Narain in jail and suppressed the voice of dissent.

Naidu charged that in its 45-year rule, the Congress had been responsible for the debt trap, the urban-rural divide, and economic disparities. Even after its nearly five decade rule, 46 per cent of the population continued to languish below poverty level, he said.