No aspirations for top post: AIADMK chief

AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Monday, ducked a question on whether she would be the prime ministerial candidate of the Third Front saying the issue would be decided after the elections.

"No comments... anyway thanks for the compliment," Jayalalithaa said cryptically, when asked whether she could be a possible prime ministerial contender in  the newly-floated Front.

"There is nothing wrong in certain parties expressing their aspirations because someone has to aspire to be the prime minister.

"There is nothing wrong in expressing one's desire but as to when the future prime minister will be selected and how this choice will take place, all that has to wait until the polls are over," Jayalalitha told reporters at her residence here..

She was responding to a question sponse to a query on the reported Prime Ministerial aspirations of BSP leader Mayawati and NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

Jayalalitha said "we have not expressed any aspirations as such. Many other parties have not done so."

The AIADMK chief also made light of her party's absence at Mayawati's dinner for the Front's leaders in Delhi on Sunday night saying "there was a communication gap".