DMK names seat sharing team for LS poll, tries early bird edge

The DMK Sunday named a committee headed by party treasurer Duraimurugan to hold seat-sharing talks with allies including the Congress for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Apparently eyeing an early bird advantage in the run up to the polls, DMK said the panel would consist of five other leaders including party organisation secretary, R S Barathi and deputy general secretary I Periasami.

The ruling AIADMK is yet to announce if it would forge electoral ties with the BJP or not while leaders like Deputy Lok Sabha Speaker M Thambidurai have voiced their opposition to "shouldering" the saffron party in Tamil Nadu.

A DMK leader said the seat sharing panel would facilitate "firming up ties with friendly parties and formally rein them in as allies to face polls under the leadership of party chief M K Stalin."
The DMK could not win a single Lok Sabha seat in 2014 election when the poll scene was dominated by late J Jayalalithaa who went to people with her famous slogan "who is better? Is it Narendra Modi or this lady?