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The spot dialog committee formed by the Congress met with the DMK leaders astatine Anna Arivalayam successful Chennai to sermon the fig of seats that the Congress would beryllium contesting successful arsenic portion of the INDIA bloc successful the upcoming Assembly election.
The committee is led by Girish Chodankar and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai.
Senior leaders of the Congress said that an knowing with the DMK would beryllium reached connected Monday.
Speaking to the reporters, Mr. Selvaperunthagai reiterated that the Congress-DMK confederation was each but sealed, and lone the details remained to beryllium determined.
“The confederation negotiations are progressing successful a cordial and palmy manner. We volition uncover the fig of seats [arrived at] erstwhile we motion the agreement. They person already agreed to allot 1 Rajya Sabha seat,” helium said.
Mr. Selvaperunthagai further said, “We person made our demands. They [DMK] said they would consult with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and get backmost to us.”
He added: “We are successful talks lone with the DMK. This is simply a natural, ideological alliance. We didn’t talk astir different issues. I petition the media not to make confusion. The confederation volition not fto BJP and AIADMK into Tamil Nadu. Rahul Gandhi loves Tamil Nadu. We are wide successful our objectives.”
On the request for 25% practice successful the section bodies, helium said, “We raised it during the negotiations. Those who were a portion of the gathering expressed assurance that a fig of seats betwixt 25 and 30 would beryllium agreed upon.”
“The Congress began with their request of 41 seats, which was deemed impossible, but we judge that a tenable number of seats would beryllium agreed upon. We expect that the seat-sharing statement volition beryllium signed connected Monday,” the elder person said.
Asked if the Congress was insistent astir a stock successful power, sources who were portion of the meeting, said, “Share successful powerfulness is imaginable lone if determination is simply a hung Assembly. Otherwise, it is retired of question.”
