Chennai: With exactly a month left for the 6 April elections, the AIADMK and the DMK, the two major parties of Tamilnadu, are finding it difficult to sign seat sharing deals with their alliance partners.
The AIADMK, which signed pacts with the PMK and the BJP after hectic parleys, is finding it difficult to negotiate with the DMDK.
The Vijayakanth-led party, it is learnt, is refusing to accept the AIADMK’s offer. Meanwhile, talks are on with the TMC too and it is said the AIADMK has offered three constituencies to the G K Vasan-led party.
Unable to find a way to end the seat-sharing deadlock with the DMK, CPI(M) today said it is the responsibility of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to safeugard the alliance.
“The number of seats offered by the DMK to us is not sufficient. We have requested them to reconsider their offer,” said CPI(M) State secretary K Balakrishnan.
He added that the DMK should ensure that the alliance did not break.
DMK on Friday finalised the seat sharing agreement with the Communist Party of India (CPI) for the 6 April Assembly elections by allotting six seats to it.
DMK on Thursday finalised the seat sharing agreement with Viduthalai Chiruthaigal
Katchi (VCK) for the 6 April Assembly elections by allotting six seats to it.
It is reported that seniors of the Tamilnadu unit of the Congress want to contest the Assembly polls alone after being ‘insulted’ by the DMK, which has offered very few seats to its ally. The final decision rests with the party’s national leadership.
Reports said that Tamilnadu Congress president KS Alagiri broke down in front of party members after feeling humiliated by DMK during the seat-sharing discussion.
Sources said DMK has offered anywhere between 20 and 25 seats to Congress, which the national party feels is very less.
In a late night development, the Bharatiya Janata Party has inked the seat-sharing pact with its senior ally, AIADMK, for 20 Assembly seats in the 6 April elections.
The national party will also contest the by-election to Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat, which it lost in 2019. The Kanyakumari vacancy was caused by the death of Congress MP H. Vasanthakumar.
The seat-sharing agreement was signed by O Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, coordinator of the AIADMK, and Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, joint coordinator of the AIADMK, C T Ravi, national general secretary of the BJP and in-charge of Tamilnadu, and L Murugan, BJP State president.
A joint statement said, “It has been decided that the AIADMK and the BJP will be part of an alliance to face the Assembly polls. Based on an agreement reached between the AIADMK and the BJP today (Friday), it has been decided to allot 20 seats to the BJP under the alliance led by the AIADMK.”