Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will arrive here shortly to finalise the seat-sharing deal with Congress. His arch-rival J Jayalalithaa is busy courting other stakeholders.
The AIADMK supremo is in the process of forging a broad coalition comprising Left parties, former Union minister Vaiko's MDMK, superstar Vijayakanth's DMDK and former Rajya Sabha member R Sarathkumar's Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK).
Anxious to build a formidable coalition to defeat the ruling alliance, which is also expected to rope in the Vanniyar-dominated PMK, Jayalalithaa has been holding discussions with Vijayakanth, known as Captain among his fans, and Sarathkumar, who belongs to the Nadar community, in an attempt to shore up her prospects in the ensuing electoral battle.
In the May, 2006 assembly polls, AIADMK, which had entered the electoral ring in the company of MDMK, polled a respectable 32.64% votes, while its alliance partner secured almost 6% votes.
It still lost the battle to the DMK-Congress-PMK combine, which secured 40.49% votes. Vijayakanth's outfit, going solo, fielded its candidates in all but two 234 assembly constituencies, bagged only one seat but polled 8.38% to damage AIADMK's prospects in several constituencies. DMDK repeated the feat in the 2009 general election, forcing [...]
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment