Addressing party workers from Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram here, AIADMK headquarters secretary and Lok Sabha MP V Sathiyamoorthy, said the Prime Minister ``should remember that it was Jayalalitha who spared seats for the MDMK, PMK and Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress.''

``If he (PM) has forgotten this, our Tiruchirappalli rally will show him the power of the AIADMK,'' he said, referring to the AIADMK's own rally on September 15 to mark the birth anniversary of late DMK founder CN Annadurai.

(Jayalalitha has chosen to hold a rally of her own at Tiruchirappalli on that day, in an apparent move to avoid meeting the Prime Minister on that day).

Sathiyamoorthy also claimed that the AIADMK had an alternative up its sleeve inthe event of DMK president M Karunanidhi announcing his support to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the DMK conference at Tirunelveli on September 17 and 18.

The AIADMK was born only to oppose Karunanidhi, and anyone receiving his support was its enemy, he said.

This remark was made particularly in a reference to mounting speculation in political circles that the DMK is gravitating towards the BJP in the wake of widening differences between the AIADMK and the BJP.