Two political alliances in two days.
DMK Wednesday finalised seat sharing with key ally Congress for the coming Lok Sabha elections, allotting nine seats in Tamil Nadu and one in neighbouring Puducherry.
DMK president M K Stalin made the announcement at party headquarters Anna Arivalayam in the presence of Congress General Secretary incharge of Tamil Nadu Mukul Wasnik, TNCC chief K S Alagiri and other senior leaders following conclusion of seat sharing talks.The constituencies to be allotted to Congress will be announced later, he said.
The DMK will finalise seat sharing exercise for other allies soon, Stalin added.There are 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu and one in Puducherry, ruled by the Congress.
The pact comes a day after the ruling AIADMK cobbled alliances with BJP and PMK allotting them five and seven Lok Sabha seats respectively.
DMK Women Wing leader and Member of Parliament (MP) Kanimozhi and senior DMK leaders held talks with Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders in Delhi on a seat-sharing arrangement.
The AIADMK won 37 seats in Tamil Nadu in 2014 Lok Sabha while the BJP-led alliance won only two seats.Announcing its alliance with the AIADMK on February 19, BJP said that it will contest on five out of the 39 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu and one seat in Puducherry.
The PMK, which has a strong voter base in northern Tamil Nadu, especially among the OBC Vanniyar community, will contest on six Lok Sabha seats and will be given one Rajya Sabha seat.
In the 235-member Assembly, the AIADMK has 115 members followed by the DMK with 88, Congress eight, one of the IUML, one independent, the Speaker and 20 vacant seats (18 disqualified and two dead).
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