| Minister of state for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal found himself at the wrong end of angry Tamil Nadu Mps who directed their ire against the Centre for inadequate assurances to the flood affected state of Tamil Nadu. |
| With the AIADMK not having a single representative in the Lok Sabha, Tamil Nadu MPS from the DMK, MDMK, PMK and even the Congress asked the Centre to direct TN chief minister J Jayalalithaa to convene an all party meeting on floods. |
| Cutting across party lines, Tamil Nadu MPs castigated Jaiswal for " totally unsatisfactory reply" so much so that the usually mild mannered minister of state for Parliamentary affairs B K Handique had to assure them of a better reply after a pre-scheduled discussion on WTO got over. |
| Jaiswal meanwhile was asked by the MPs for "specific assurances" on flood relief efforts. When Jaiswal said that the Centre could only advise the state government on how to conduct flood relief, Krishnaswamy, an MP from the DMK erupted angrily at the minister. |
| 'In the last 4 years the chief minister of Tamil Nadu has not held a single meeting with either the MPs or the MLAs, we want that the government should convey the Centre's anguish at this instead of this disappointing reply,' he said. |
| Outside the House, Tamil Nadu MPs said that the Jayalaithaa government's ability to walk away with all the credit of handling first the Tsunami and now the unprecedented floods in the states would be paid for by electoral reverses. |
| "Our government is there in the Centre but in the state we are losing ground," said a DMK MP. |
| If the DMK appeared to be angry with its Central ally, the AIADMK, with its presence only in the Upper house made it a point to distance itself from the opposition BJP. |
| When the NDA staged a walkout on the Volcker issue this morning, the AIADMK members stayed put making it very clear that they would be on their own during the Tamil Nadu assembly elections. |
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