Dmk Withdraws Ministers

• DMK-Congress agree on seat-sharing for Tamil Nadu polls

  The DMK-Congress alliance came back from breakpoint and finally made a breakthrough. A seat-sharing arrangement for the Tamil Nadu polls was announced in Chennai late on Monday evening. The breakthrough came after senior DMK leaders, and Union Ministers, Dayanidhi Maran and MK Alagiri met Congress President and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her r...

• DMK pulls out of UPA govt, withdraws its 6 ministers

  Just a month ahead of Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the seven-year-old Congress-DMK alliance is teetering with the DMK deciding to pull of the UPA government at the Centre, withdrawing its six cabinet ministers. At the core of this is the two parties' inability to agree on seat sharing in the state - the Congress wants to contest more seats than th...

• DMK's six ministers in UPA government

  The DMK has decided to withdraw its ministers from the Union Cabinet as Congress and the DMK could not agree on seat sharing. The DMK will now only extend issue-based support to the UPA government.Now, the UPA government's strength will come down significantly with the DMK pulling out its 18 MPs from the ruling coalition. The DMK has six ministers ...

• Congress gives guarded response to DMK pullout

  The DMK's decision to pull out of the UPA Government appears to have come as a bolt from the blue for the Congress, which still feels all is not lost and negotiations could continue.Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi gave a guarded reaction on the development, keeping alive the hopes of a settlement on seat sharing even at this stage."There i...