Chennai: AIADMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on October 16 alleged that the party's alliance partners during the last Assembly polls had started opposing her only to achieve their "selfish ends".

Without naming the erstwhile partners, she said, "even Opposition parties are better than them".

The Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), which had merged with Congress, Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and Pattali Makkala Katchi (PMK) fought the last Assembly elections in alliance with AIADMK but had snapped ties with the party now.

In a statement on the occasion of the party's 31st Foundation Day, being celebrated all over the state on October 16, she said her government was continuously working for safeguarding the integrity of the nation and to eradicate terrorism and fissiparous tendencies.

She said after the 1996 Assembly polls, she had stated that she owned full responsibility for AIADMK's defeat and had vowed that she would make efforts to bring the party back to power in 2001. She had fulfilled her vow, she said.

However, when the AIADMK suffered defeat, some party men, who had enjoyed power till the last minute of her government's rule, had betrayed her and her party in 1996. But the party cadre stood behind her, she said and thanked them for this.

Narrating several schemes introduced by her government for the welfare of the people of the state, she said her government would continue to implement several schemes despite financial crunch.

PTI