The Congress party has withdrawn support to the UF government. It has used the pretext of the Jain Commission's interim report which has made out no case whatsoever about the DMK's involvement in the assassination Rajiv Gandhi. The people will disapprove this action of the Congress party; it only indicates the desperate straits the Congress finds itself in, unable to project a viable political platform to revive the party. ...

The resignation by the prime minister and the stand taken by all the UF constituents that they will not support any BJP or Congress-led government shows that ... the Front will foil any unscrupulous manoeuvres ... There is no other option but to go in for elections. This will be the only democratic way to resolve the present crisis ...