TN polls: DMK provides Congress 25 Assembly seats, Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Sunday allotted 25 Assembly seats and the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency to the Congress, after days of negotiations between the allies forward of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. A proper pact was signed by DMK chief M Okay Stalin and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief Okay S Alagiri on the DMK’s headquarters in Chennai, ‘Anna Arivalayam’, on Sunday.
Alagiri stated the DMK and Congress would work to uphold secularism, whereas senior chief Dinesh Gundu, additionally Congress’s Tamil Nadu in-charge, stated the alliance would sweep the April 6 polls.
“Once we sign an agreement, we have to be satisfied because this has been done after a lot of deliberations. Our only aim is now to see that the secular front wins… The time for being satisfied or dissatisfied is over. Now we are in the battlefield. We have to take on our opponents,” Rao was quoted as saying by information company PTI.
Rao additionally stated the battle in opposition to the BJP was not confined to ideology alone, however prolonged to “saving democracy” from its clutches, report PTI. “This is a very dangerous situation the country is facing,” he stated.
The Kanyakumari bypoll has been necessitated following the dying of H Vasanthakumar on account of Covid-19 final yr.
Tamil Nadu, which has 234 Assembly seats, goes to polls in a single section on April 6. The outcomes can be declared on May 2.

So far, the DMK has allotted 48 seats to its allies — 25 to Congress, six every to Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and CPI, three to the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and two to Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK).