Dmk-congress Deal

The ruling DMK today named the nine seats in Tamil Nadu it allotted to the Congress. The Congress will also be contesting the lone seat in neighbouring Puducherry.

The race to conclude seat-share deals in Tamil Nadu - where the political landscape is dominated by the ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK, with the Congress and BJP playing second fiddle - is picking up pace with the election now just weeks away.

The Congress and its Tamil Nadu ally DMK have not been able to finalise a seat-sharing deal for the April 6 election despite two rounds of talks. According to sources, the Congress's demand for contesting in 30 of the state's 234 assembly seats is unacceptable to its Dravidian ally. The MK Stalin-led party - which is the dominant partner in the all...

After days of playing Deal or No Deal, the Congress and DMK have decided they'll stick together for the Tamil Nadu elections.The DMK has surrendered to the Congress' demand for 63 seats. The DMK will part with 61 of those, and the other two will be taken from the DMK's regional allies. So far, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu has been provided exte...

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...

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 sources have told NDTV that they have finalised a seat-sharing deal with the Congress. Under the new deal that has been thrashed out, the Congress will get 60 seats. In the last state election, the Congress was given 48 seats. This deal comes after high-level negotiations through Thursday. A third round of talks held late on Wednesday night had...

The ruling DMK today named the nine seats in Tamil Nadu it allotted to the Congress. The Congress will also be contesting the lone seat in neighbouring Puducherry.

The race to conclude seat-share deals in Tamil Nadu - where the political landscape is dominated by the ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK, with the Congress and BJP playing second fiddle - is picking up pace with the election now just weeks away.

The Congress and its Tamil Nadu ally DMK have not been able to finalise a seat-sharing deal for the April 6 election despite two rounds of talks. According to sources, the Congress's demand for contesting in 30 of the state's 234 assembly seats is unacceptable to its Dravidian ally. The MK Stalin-led party - which is the dominant partner in the all...

After days of playing Deal or No Deal, the Congress and DMK have decided they'll stick together for the Tamil Nadu elections.The DMK has surrendered to the Congress' demand for 63 seats. The DMK will part with 61 of those, and the other two will be taken from the DMK's regional allies. So far, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu has been provided exte...

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...

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 sources have told NDTV that they have finalised a seat-sharing deal with the Congress. Under the new deal that has been thrashed out, the Congress will get 60 seats. In the last state election, the Congress was given 48 seats. This deal comes after high-level negotiations through Thursday. A third round of talks held late on Wednesday night had...