Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) supremo Jayalalithaa has said the results of the Lok Sabha polls in the State was not a verdict against her Government and the polls were meant to decide who would rule at the Centre.

Accepting the verdict with "bowed head", Jayalalithaa said a statement late last night (May 13, 2004) that the results did not reflect the opinion of the people against the State Government. However, Opposition parties were speaking as if the verdict was against the State Government's performance and had demanded her resignation, the statement said.

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"It is ridiculous that some parties are assuming that the verdict of the Lok Sabha elections as verdict against AIADMK Government," she said.

The Chief Minister said in 1989 polls, when DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) president M Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister, AIADMK alliance had won 39 of the 40 seats, including Pondicherry. Even the one seat that the alliance had lost had gone to the CPI and not to DMK.

"But at that time Karunanidhi did not consider the defeat of the DMK in all the Lok sabha constituencies as a verdict against the DMK Government, nor did he resign," she said adding that in 1998 AIADMK alliance had won 30, but Karunanidhi Government did not resign.