Chennai: DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazagham) on June 15 said it would consider coming out of the NDA (National democratic Alliance), if the Centre deviated from the NDA agenda.

Talking to reporters in Chennai, DMK president M Karunanidhi, however, expressed the hope that the Vajpayee government would not deviate from the NDA agenda.

But if DMK felt that the NDA agenda was being deviated, the general council of the party might deliberate the issue and take a decision, he said.

On Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalalithaa's remarks that Pope Paul John II has no business to comment on the anti-forcible religious conversion bill, he said it was highly condemnable that she had sought to comment on Pope.

Pope had every right to comment on any law passed by any country, he said.

'The cat is out of the bag' was his comments on the appointment sought by Ta Ramaiah, brother of the slain DMK leader Ta Kiruttinan with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

'I have been saying that the AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham) government was aiming at two mangoes from a single stone throw. While it wanted to use the Kiruttinan murder for weakening the DMK, it also used the murder to arrest M K Azagiri, his elder son, Karunanidhi said.

'When I am unable to recover from the loss of Kiruttinan I have to take steps to guard the party from the AIADMK onslaught', he said.

PTI