Alliance split will not affect us, says M. Karunanidhi

Tamil nadu chief minister and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and senior party leader M. K. Alagiri asserted on Sunday that the split with ruling United Progressive Alliance would not affect the party's performance in the upcoming state polls. Briefing reporters in Chennai, Karunanidhi, hinted that other parties could extend support to the DMK in the elections. Months before the provincial assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, Congress party led-UPA split on Saturday after regional party DMK withdrew support on the issue of seat-sharing in the upcoming polls. DMK said its six ministers in the central coalition would quit and the party would lend "only issue based support" to the UPA. The DMK chief said he had received no green signal yet from the Congress side, intensifying the deadlock between the factions.