Monday, November 21 2005 16:04 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Chennai: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M Karunanidhi today (Nov 21, 2005) said he did not like to get involved in any controversies when asked about the controversy over actress Kushboo's remarks on pre-marital sex.

"I do not like to do so," he told reporters, declining to comment on the issue.

A few days back, the Communist Party of India (CPI) Marxist (M) and Communist Party of India (CPI) stoutly defended Kushboo's democratic right to express her views.

On Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's reported remarks that there was no alternative to her in Tamil Nadu, Karunanidhi said, "Only the worst do not have any alternative."

After a meeting of the DMK MPs here, he said the flood relief measures announced by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Government was with an eye on next year's assembly polls.

"But even that is not being distributed properly, " he said.

People were driven from pillar to post to get the relief materials, he said adding the officials had not taken into account the exact number of persons affected by the rain.

'When the DMK was in power, officials used to enumerate the number of affected persons, prepare a list and start distributing the relief materials, but the present Government was not following any principle," he said.

"It is as if that the relief assistance is being given from their pockets AIADMK. The government has not provided even a single house for those, who lost their houses during the Tsunami. The fact might not be known even to some Central Ministers. I am not talking about the ministers from the state. But people knew very well about the relief work undertaken by the AIADMK Government," he said.