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Sunday, June 27, 1999
Cong-AIADMK talks fail
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JUNE 26: With a typical Manmohanesque air of resignation, Congress leader Manmohan Singh emerged out of the Poes Garden residence of AIADMK chief J Jayalalitha this evening after hour-long parleys to work out a seat-sharing arrangement with the ADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) for the coming Lok Sabha polls. But the former finance minister's dead-pan face and his observations sent out perceptible signals: the seat-sharing talks between the Congress and the ADMK have run into rough weather.``It has not been settled,'' he replied to a pointed query on whether the electoral arrangement with the ADMK had been finalised. On the seat-sharing talks with the ADMK supremo, he merely said: ``I have to report back to Sonia Gandhi''. Will there be another round of talks? ``I have to first report back to her''. On whether he was satisfied with the talks, he philosophically remarked: ``There is nothing like satisfaction in politics''. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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