DMK unlikely to offer more seats to Secular Progressive Alliance constituents as it seeks to take in new allies

The DMK enactment is improbable to connection much seats to respective of its allies, it is reliably learnt. The ruling enactment is, instead, focussing connected accommodating caller parties, without drastically disturbing the presumption quo of the Secular Progressive Alliance headed by it.

The DMK is yet to represent a committee to clasp seat-sharing talks with its allies. Its main ally, Congress, had past twelvemonth itself appointed a five-member committee for the purpose. By constituting the committee, the Congress sought to extremity speculation that it mightiness align with histrion Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Recently, it restrained its leaders from expressing hostile views connected societal media.

The Congress’s committee has held discussions with DMK leaders during which immoderate Congress leaders demanded a stock successful power.

“However, the DMK enactment is successful nary temper to concede either a stock successful powerfulness oregon an summation successful the fig of seats for the Congress. We volition allot the aforesaid fig of seats that were fixed to the Congress successful the 2021 Assembly election,” said a elder DMK leader.

Congress wide caput K.C. Venugopal is besides successful interaction with the DMK enactment and is keen connected finalising the seat-sharing statement astatine the earliest.

In the 2021 election, the Congress contested successful 25 constituencies and won successful 18. The Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi (VCK), the CPI, the CPI(M) and the MDMK (on the DMK symbol) contested successful six constituencies each. The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) contested successful 3 constituencies. The Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi, the Manithaneya Makkal Katchi, and the Tamizhaga Vazhvurimai Katchi, led by T. Velmurugan, besides contested connected the DMK’s Rising Sun symbol.

“This seat-sharing look worked good successful 2021 and volition clasp bully this clip too,” a DMK root said.

The DMK enactment is besides holding talks with the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), which volition person to beryllium allotted seats if it agrees to articulation the alliance. The DMDK leadership, which stayed distant from the NDA rally attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi past week, is reportedly pressing for a double-digit fig of seats. “That is not possible. We are successful interaction with them, but they volition person to settee for a azygous digit,” the root said.

For now, the DMK plans to broadly travel the 2021 look with adjustments to accommodate parties specified arsenic Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) and the DMDK. It is not wide however the DMK volition woody with the MNM. A elder DMK person said, “Mr. Kamal Haasan has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha, and this itself is equivalent to six Assembly seats.”