Tamil Nadu elections: Congress will get 25 seats in DMK alliance, talks with CPM on

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Sunday allocated 25 Meeting seats and the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency to the Congress, after a week-long impasse in negotiations between the allies forward of the Tamil Nadu Meeting elections. A proper pact was once signed through DMK leader M Ok Stalin and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee leader Ok S Alagiri on the DMK’s headquarters in Chennai, ‘Anna Arivalayam’, on Sunday.

Alagiri after signing the settlement, mentioned it was once a vital day for the party as solidarity of secular forces was once a very powerful issue within the present political state of affairs in India.

“Our alliance holds nice importance at a time when BJP is spreading its ideology like an endemic. What they (BJP) did in Puducherry was once the similar, through sending a Lt. Governor to break and prevent paintings of an elected executive. So, combating the BJP’s enlargement in Tamil Nadu remains to be a very powerful factor. This alliance isn’t just to seize energy, but additionally to stay it as a lifeline of secular forces,” Alagiri mentioned.

Ever since alliance talks started between the Congress and DMK, there have been many united states of americaand downs inspite in their lengthy affiliation. A bit of DMK, on the subject of party leader M Ok Stalin, sought after to stay Congress away and contest most seats.

Congress was once first of all tough 34 seats and DMK was once handiest able to supply handiest 18. Later, the Congress’s call for got here right down to 30, whilst DMK refused to extend its be offering. DMK was once then noticed making adjustments in its difficult stand earlier than each events controlled to succeed in 25 seats for Congress, in conjunction with the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat, the place a bypoll is necessitated following the demise of sitting Congress MP H Vasanthakumar because of Covid-19 remaining 12 months.

Of 234 seats within the state, DMK has already allotted six seats every for Thol Thirumavalavan’s Dalit party VCK and CPI, events who have already got two MPs every within the alliance. Vaiko’s MDMK was once additionally allocated six seats, however the party applicants might be contesting on DMK’s image, the emerging solar. Whilst Congress was once given 25, talks with any other best friend CPM are nonetheless in development, as they’re tough greater than what CPI were given within the alliance.

Tamil Nadu, which has 234 Meeting seats, is going to polls in a single section on April 6. The effects might be declared on Would possibly 2.