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After days of hard bargaining, the CPI(M) connected Monday nighttime yet accepted the 5 seats offered by the DMK for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election. DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and CPI(M) State caput P. Shanmugam signed the statement astatine the Anna Arivalayam successful Chennai.
“Though not satisfied, we accepted the seats due to the fact that we bash not privation to make a favourable information for the AIADMK-BJP combine,” Mr. Shanmugam said. The CPI(M), which was allotted six seats successful the past Assembly predetermination successful the aforesaid alliance, had begun negotiations with the DMK, pitching for the allotment of treble digit seats. However, the DMK, citing the introduction of much parties successful the alliance, refused to concede the demand.
Over the past fewer days, the CPI(M), nether unit from its fertile and record and State secretariat, repeatedly went to the dialog array urging that it beryllium allotted astatine slightest the aforesaid six seats arsenic past time. However, adjacent a gathering with Mr. Stalin failed to interruption the ice, with the DMK person remaining steadfast successful allotting lone 5 seats, a fig it had besides fixed the CPI.
Sources said the CPI(M) wide caput M.A. Baby had conveyed that successful the involvement of the INDIA bloc, the enactment would judge the DMK’s reduced offer. On Monday, Mr. Shanmugam and erstwhile CPI(M) State caput K. Balakrishnan met Mr. Stalin requesting him 1 last clip to allocate six seats. But Mr. Stalin again expressed inability to concede their demand.
Sources said astatine 1 point, the CPI(M) had adjacent considered entering the fray successful immoderate constituencies independently and supporting the DMK-led confederation successful different seats. Eventually, it came astir and accepted the 5 spot deal.
With this, the DMK has completed seat-sharing with astir of its older allies. It has yet to finalise a woody with the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam. The DMDK, the caller entrant to the alliance, is apt to beryllium invited for talks subsequently.
