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| AIADMK clinches seat-sharing deal with MDMK |
| Press Trust Of India / Chennai Apr 10, 2009, 01:26 IST |
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Ending weeks of hard bargaining, the AIADMK and MDMK today reached a seat-sharing agreement under which Vaiko’s party has been allotted four seats.
With this, the AIADMK headed by Jayalalithaa has completed the seat-sharing exercise with all its partners, including the PMK, CPI, CPI(M) and MDMK, to contest the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat in Puducherry.
Under the seat-sharing arrangement, AIADMK would contest 23 seats, PMK 6, MDMK 4 and CPI and CPI(M) 3 each. The Puducherry seat has been allotted to the PMK.
The agreement with the MDMK was delayed due to differences over the number of seats as well as constituencies to be allotted to Vaiko-led MDMK. The party has finally been given Virudhunagar, Thanjavur, Erode and Nilgiris constituencies.
After finalising the pact with the MDMK this morning, Jayalalithaa released the list of her party candidates, which included former Union Minister M Thambidurai.
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