TN Brahmin Assn to support BJP

Chennai, Apr 28 (UNI) The Tamizh Nadu Brahmin Association (THAMBRAAS) has unanimously decided to support the BJP-led alliance in the May 8 Assembly elections.

Association state President N Narayanan, announcing this at a press conference here today, said they had taken this decision because they wanted any Chief Minister elected by the people to be accessible to the people's representatives.

He said they were against family inheritance and close friends becoming extra-constitutional authorities. They wanted corruption free and transparent administration in the state. They were also against the 'politics of vindictiveness' adopted by Dravidian parties against each other at the cost of the exchequer.

THAMBRAAS was for scrapping the two language formula of Tamil Nadu and for introduction of Hindi and other languages in optional subjects at Government and aided schools, and for creation of an autonomous body to run temple administration.

To a question, he said the present Assembly poll was the one and only opportunity for 'hurt devotees' to record their disapproval of the way the AIADMK government handled Kanchi Mutt affairs.

Apart from this, they were supporting the BJP as it was the only party, which stood by the Kanchi Mutt during the hour of crisis.

Two candidates of the newly launched Makkal Desiya Jananaykaa Katchi (MDJK) by THAMBRAAS were seeking election from Saidapet and Tiruvidaimaruthur Assembly constituencies, under the BJP's lotus symbol. The candidates were Muktha Srinivasan and Sowrirajan.

Efforts were on to register the MDJK with the Election Commission as a political party.

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