According to the electoral understanding signed by DMK chief Karunanidhi and Sivakami, founder-president of the outfit -- Samuga Samathuva Padai (SSP), the latter will contest with the rising sun symbol of the Dravidian party.
"It has been decided after consultations that SSP will contest in the rising sun symbol of DMK as an electoral ally in the May 16 Assembly election," the pact between the parties read.
A Dalit bureaucrat and a novelist, Sivakami founded SSP in 2009 after voluntarily quitting the IAS the previous year. She joined the IAS in 1980 in the Tamil Nadu cadre.
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