Wondering how AIADMK would be part of the Union government unless it aligned with national parties after the Lok Sabha polls, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday asked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to openly state her post-poll strategy without being dodgy.

“How can AIADMK form the government with 30 seats? Whom is it going to align with?

Jayalalithaa should not dodge this question” he said, addressing a meeting here tonight to introduce his son Karthi Chidambaram to voters.

His remark comes in the backdrop of AIADMK taking the electoral plunge without forging poll truck with any player and dumping former allies, the two Left parties and party supremo and CM Jayalalithaa keen to realise her ambition of playing a prominent role at the national level post poll.

Chidambaram then chose to give a cricket analogy, saying even if AIADMK chose to be part of the BJP government, it would be only ‘B-team’ and that too only the ’12th man’.

Stating that both DMK and AIADMK could not go beyond the state borders and would need support of MPs from other states, he said Tamils would be part of the Union Government only if people voted for national parties.