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DMK yet to finalise seat-sharing talks with allies in many districts

The DMK has finalised its seat-sharing talks with allies only in a third of the civic poll-bound districts. Differences have yet to be ironed out between the Dravidian major and its allies in at least over a dozen and a half districts with barely two days left for the poll nominations to get over.

DMK yet to finalise seat-sharing talks with allies in many districts
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The DMK has officially admitted that an agreement has been reached in Tirunavannamalai, Tiruchy, Karur, Salem, Coimbatore, The Nilgiris, Madurai andKanniyakumari.


An official statement released by the DMK on Saturday said the talks were in progress between the DMK district secretaries and their counterparts in alliance parties in the remaining districts and the lists would be released shortly.


Excluding Sunday, candidates of the Opposition alliance would be left with only a day to file their nominations, which forces them to finalise the negotiations in 24 hours.


The DMK insiders revealed that a couple of districts in the kongu region have deadlocked the negotiations with both the Congress and their functionaries firm on fielding their candidates.


Bribe charge


Meanwhile, a letter allegedly written by a former DMK MLA has disturbed councilor aspirants in the principal opposition party. ‘Aalavayal’ Subbaiah, former MLA from Pudukottai district, has allegedly written to DMK president MK Stalin, alleging that district secretary S Regupathy has demanded Rs 10 lakh to allot district panchayat councilor seat for his sonMuralidharan.


Contempt notice


Earlier in the day, DMK organising secretary R S Bharathi sent a contempt notice to the State Election Commission, urging it to strictly comply with the December 6 and 11 dated directions of the Supreme Court in true letter and spirit withoutany deviations.


Bharathi alleged that the SEC has “willfully, wantonly, and with mala fide intentions” defied the orders of the SC by issuing a release on December 11 to go ahead with the Dec 7 notification.

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