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DMK, Congress to continue poll alliance

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New Delhi: Ending any doubts, DMK and Congress today decided to continue their seven-year-old alliance to contest the forthcoming Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and to set up a committee to thrash out the modalities of seat-sharing.

With just four months left for the Assembly elections in the state, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who arrived here yesterday on a 3-day visit, met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and discussed the political situation in the state.

“I met Sonia Gandhi for 45 minutes. As a result, the DMK-Congress coalition is continuing,” he told reporters at the Tamil Nadu House here.

The meeting, which was scheduled to be held in the afternoon took place in the evening, and the decision to continue the alliance ended all speculation about any rift between the coalition partners in the wake of the 2G spectrum scam which saw A Raja forced to quit the Union Cabinet.

Karunanidhi said a committee will be formed to discuss the number of seats and the constituencies to be contested by both parties.

“A committee will be constituted. It will discuss the modalities for seat-sharing. The committee will decide the seats and constituencies of both parties,” he said after the meeting, during which DMK Parliamentary Party leader T R Baalu, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran and MP Kanimozhi were present.

The DMK chief said the committee members will be soon announced and it will start discussing the modalities.

The members of the committee will be made public soon, he said. After seat-sharing talks are over the coalition will be ready for the polls, which are due in May, he said. (PTI)

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