New Delhi: With barely three days left for the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (May 7, 2004) sought to drive a wedge in the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-Congress alliance by bringing forth a letter purportedly written by Congress leaders in 1998 alleging links between DMK and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and demanding a probe against the party supremo M Karunanidhi.

Party general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi pooh-poohed the Congress claims that it had withdrawn allegations against DMK after the final report of Jain Commission, which probed Rajiv Gandhi assassination, and circulated a letter the Congress leaders had addressed to Home Minister L K Advani.

The Congress has claimed that there was nothing adverse against DMK in the final report.

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The signatories to the letter, written after the submission of the Commission's final report, included Manmohan Singh, Arjun Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Suresh Pachouri among others.

"When was the Congress lying - then or now - they have been misleading the country on important national issues including Kargil and POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act). A party which tells lies even on the issue of the murder of its leader cannot do justice either to the country or its allies," Naqvi told reporters in New Delhi on a day coinciding with Congress president Sonia Gandhi's rally with DMK in Chennai.

Claiming that non-NDA (National Democratic Alliance) parties were speaking in different tongues with regard to a post-poll alliance under the leadership of Gandhi, he said, "The reason for this is the irresponsible and confusing policies of the Congress and the fact that the people have rejected the skylab leadership of the Congress party."