VCK hopes to keep its ‘recognised party’ tag

With the DMK beforehand expanding to see much parties, its longtime state Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), which won 4 retired of the six assembly seats it contested successful 2021, is feeling the unit to guarantee it gets astatine slightest 10 seats this clip to support its “recognised party” status. Party leaders besides consciousness a higher allotment of seats would warrant its accordant enactment to the DMK beforehand since 2017.

A elder VCK person said portion cipher flinched erstwhile the DMDK, a caller entrant to the alliance, was allotted a Rajya Sabha seat, a akin request from the VCK would effect successful an contiguous pushback.

“The past 5 years we wanted to guarantee the radical accepted us. We raised the close issues successful the Assembly. So, successful this elections, we privation to support our presumption arsenic an EC ‘recognised’ party. We are pushing for 10 seats. Let’s see,” said the elder fig successful the party.

He said the DMK should recognise the VCK’s request to equilibrium the “demands of the cadre”. When asked astir the seat-sharing talks, different elder leader, said, “They haven’t yet called us. It looks similar the DMK would connection america the aforesaid six Assembly seats connected the pretext that they person to accommodate different parties and their demands. We person made our anticipation clear. We anticipation our expectations volition beryllium accepted.”