DMK’s offer of 25 seats not acceptable, says Congress leader

The AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu and caput of the party’s seat-sharing dialog committee for the upcoming Assembly election, Girish Chodankar, connected Sunday said the 25 seats offered by the DMK to the Congress was not acceptable.

“We person been associated with the DMK for a precise agelong time. Whenever they were successful a crisis, we reduced our quota. Now, it is their turn,” helium said.

While the committee was scheduled to resume negotiations connected Monday, sources successful the DMK indicated connected Sunday that it whitethorn not hap arsenic Mr. Chodankar had near for Goa.

In an interrogation to ANI, Mr. Chodankar said the committees formed by the DMK and the Congress had an “hour-long” treatment (on Saturday), and hoped the Congress’s demands would beryllium accepted.

According to him, the committee is pursuing the pb of the Tamil Nadu Congress leaders, who met enactment person Rahul Gandhi successful New Delhi recently.

Mr. Chodankar said helium hoped the party’s privation list, submitted to the DMK, would beryllium accepted, arsenic “only past we tin proceed with this (negotiations)”.

Missing warmth

Meanwhile, the “brotherly warmth” appeared to beryllium missing successful Mr. Gandhi’s day greetings to DMK person and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. Last year, successful a societal media post, Mr. Gandhi had addressed Mr. Stalin arsenic “my brother”, and the second had thanked his “dear brother”. But this time, the greetings and the effect were formal, with the connection “brother” conspicuously absent.