Azhagiri stated, in reply to reporters’ question on the impasse with Congress on seat sharing,
‘If you are happy I am happy,we are going ahead with election work’
Now Azhagiri is the first person to meet Congress Leaders in Delhi.
DMK Minister Durai Murugan is reported to have asked P.Chidambaram, in the earlier talks that led to impasse(in fact this is one of the reasons for Congress being adamant)
“If we allot 63 seats do you have enough people to stand in the elections?”
Well, Karunbanidhi is the man who organised the stoning of Indira Gandhi in Madurai way back and a case was also filed.
When Sarkaria commission held him guilty and declared that the ‘DMK has invented Scientific Corrupton”, he immedaitely declared
‘Indira, daughter of Nehru,please come,provide us with a stable Government’.( the Tamil sentence rhymes nicely).
(”நேருவின் மகளே வருக,நிலையான ஆட்சி தருக)
Neither the Congress nor the DMK has any sense of shame.
Parties used to ally with other for principles before.
Now they declare openly they do it because of voter percentages for the parties.
Common man is being taken for granted. as usual.
As an aside , if the parties are so sure of percentages why conduct elections and waste public Money?
They can as well declare results on the basis of the parties’ percentages.
New Delhi/Chennai, March 8 (IANS) After a three-day tense drama that triggered a major crisis for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Tamil Nadu‘s ruling DMK Tuesday finally allowed the Congress to contest 63 of the 234 seats in next month’s assembly elections.
After suddenly ending seven years of support to the Manmohan Singh government over the Congress insistence on fighting from 63 constituencies instead of 60 as desired by DMK, the two parties announced an equally dramatic truce capping days of secret negotiations.
Congress leader and central Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the party in charge of Tamil Nadu, made the announcement as DMK central ministers M.K. Azhagiri — elder son of Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi — and Dayanidhi Maran looked on.
‘The Congress will be contesting 63 seats. Now we have unanimously come to the conclusion that … the alliance will work together,’ a beaming Azad told reporters in New Delhi.
‘We will ensure that entire alliance is back to power. This is a winning alliance,’ Azad added.
Azhagiri, who played a key role in ensuring that the DMK-Congress marriage continued, echoed his sentiments. He did not go into details.
Azhagiri and Maran called on Gandhi Monday night after talks with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Azad, who were adamant that the Congress would not budge on its demand for 63 seats
Informed sources in Chennai said the DMK and two of its allies, the PMK and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), would give up a seat each from their quota to meet the Congress demand of 63 seats.
Naturally, Azad gave due credit to Tamil Nadu’s smaller parties.
‘Apart from DMK and Congress, there is PMK, there is VCK, and Muslim League. So all put together, this is a winning alliance,’ said Azad, who had cancelled a scheduled meeting in Chennai with Karunanidhi over the weekend amid escalating tensions.
With this announcement, the DMK has signed electoral pacts with six parties involving 113 of the 234 seats. The six are: Congress (63), KMK (7), MMK (1), VCK (10), PMK (30) and IUML (2).
The PMK and IUML were earlier allotted 31 and three seats respectively.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5007731
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