Home Minister Chidambaram is reported to have said’Congress is a big tree,if one leave withers two will sprout’.(Headlines Today report of date)
Toughening of Congress stance.
If Congress joins AIAMK,with Vijayakanth already in AIADMK alliance,DMK is as good having lost the elections.
Rahul Gandhi seems to be not in favour of DMK.
However, Sonia Gandhi does not seem to have forgotten the snub of Jayalaithaa and seems to be favoring DMK.
Probably Congress may be accommodated in the DMK alliance with about 65 seats.
Let’s see.
Congress is reported to have demanded the include ‘power sharing‘ in the manifesto.
Karunanidhi would never agree to that.
I am not sure of power sharing at all by DMK.
Although the talks between the Congress and the DMK got stuck on the issue of the number of seats, leaders of both parties reported “forward movement” on the issue of power-sharing.
A senior Congress leader involved in the talks said the DMK had “informally” agreed to the proposal for power-sharing.
However, while the DMK does not want a pre-election formal agreement on the issue, the Congress is adamant that a firm commitment on a coalition government be made right now.
“We want them to declare this (power-sharing) openly,” another Congress member said.
The toughening of the Congress position on seat-sharing for the Assembly election was made possible by the full backing of AICC president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, it is learnt.
On Friday, when leaders of the DMK and the Congress came to the negotiation table, the Congress team, led by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, made it clear that his party would not settle for anything less than 90 seats.
The DMK leaders were not prepared for the “substantial increase” as they claimed to have only 53 seats to offer.
http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/27/stories/2011022762580100.htm
A senior Congress leader involved in the talks said the DMK had “informally” agreed to the proposal for power-sharing.
http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/27/stories/2011022757610100.htm
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