Sharing of seats between Congress and DMK in Tamil Nadu
In the upcoming elections the allies DMK and the Congress have arrived at a seat sharing agreement under which the Congress will contest 60 assembly seats of the 234 in the state.
DMK source said an announcement would come in one or two days.
On Wednesday the deal follows three rounds of negotiations, the third between the Congress functionary in charge of Tamil Nadu, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and DMK patriarch and chief minister M Karunanidhi.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is union health minister, left for New Delhi on Thursday to get the approval of the party high command on the offer made by the DMK. Earlier Azad told reporters he would apprise the leadership of the outcome of his deliberations with the DMK brass.
Congress sources said the party would be agreeable to the DMK proposal. Sources said Azad had briefed Congress president Sonia Gandhi on his talks with the DMK and its compulsions to accommodate other smaller parties to form a winning alliance.
The Congress, which had initially pitched for 80 90 seats, had considerably scaled down its demand and was agreeable to anything between 60 and 65. In the last assembly elections, the Congress was allotted 48 seats, of which it won 34.
