Saturday, March 5, 2011

DMK-Cong alliance to collapse?

The seven-year-old DMK-Congress alliance was on the brink of collapse on the issue of seat-sharing for the Assembly polls tonight with party chief M Karunanidhi saying the party's high level committee would take a 'proper decision' on the issue tomorrow.

In a statement here, he asked whether it was proper for Congress, which had agreed for 60 seats earlier, to now demand 63 seats over telephone.

The Congress stand that it would decide on the constituencies to be contested was highly improper, he said in a statement.

The DMK and the Congress have held three rounds of discussions on seat-sharing for the April 13 Assembly elections, but no headway could be made due to differences between the two parties.
Speculation was rife that the deal would be signed today.

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