Tirunelveli (TN), January 27: Describing the meeting between AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa as “of no political significance,” Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan today asserted the “winning combination” of Congress-DMK would continue in 2011 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections also.
“It is only a courtesy meeting and has no political significance,” Vasan, a former TNCC President, told reporters here reacting to reports on Jayalalithaa meeting Gandhi and exchanging greetings during the Election Commission’s Diamond Jubilee celebration in Delhi on Monday.
Pointing out that UPA combination had emerged victorious in Tamil Nadu in the 2004 and 2009 Parliamentary Elections and the 2006 assembly polls, he said the alliance’s winning spree would continue in the 2011 assembly elections also.
The meeting between Jayalalithaa and Gandhi, first in the last 11 years, has given rise to speculations of a thaw in the relations between the two.
–PTI