It will get one Rajya Sabha seat and contest within the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha bye-election.
The DMK and the Congress reached a seat-sharing settlement on Saturday night time, ending days of sturdy posturing by the nationwide get together and its veiled risk of strolling out of the alliance.
The Congress will contest in 25 Assembly seats and within the byelection to the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat that fell vacant after the demise of H. Vasanthakumar. It may also get one Rajya Sabha seat. In a late night time growth, get together leaders Dinesh Gundu Rao, Ok.S. Alagiri and Ok.R. Ramasamy met DMK president M.Ok. Stalin at his residence.
“We have reached an settlement. We shall be signing the settlement tomorrow round 10 a.m.,” Mr. Rao instructed The Hindu after the assembly.
The Congress was left with not many choices after the DMK refused to concede its demand for 30 seats. Many within the Congress had been speaking of strolling out of the alliance if the demand was not met. Some leaders additionally floated the choice of tying up with actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam as a final resort.
Pushed to the wall owing to the dearth of sturdy alternate options, the Congress settled for 25 seats. The growth got here almost three hours after Mr. Alagiri instructed reporters on the sidelines of a public assembly {that a} seat-sharing association can be introduced quickly. Several leaders instructed The Hindu on Friday night that the potential of signing a deal was probably solely on Monday for the reason that DMK’s mega rally in Tiruchi was scheduled for Sunday.
A senior Congress chief attributed the climbdown to an absence of higher choices for the get together. “What different choices do we’ve? The different choices will not be nice…,” the chief mentioned.
In the previous week, a number of Congress leaders had been insisting on “dignity for the get together within the alliance and the variety of seats”. On Friday, a senior chief instructed The Hindu that back-channel talks had been going down between the 2 events.
A supply in New Delhi mentioned the central management was miffed on the State unit for fumbling on the seat-sharing train although it was given a free hand. The central management felt that successful a better variety of the allotted seats was extra vital than contesting in additional seats.
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