Chennai: Congress and the DMK on Sunday finalised a seat sharing deal for the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. The seat sharing deal was signed between DMK President MK Stalin and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) President KS Alagiri.
Congress will get a total of 25 seats. The party will contest from the Kanyakumari Loksabha seat where by-election will take place following the death of H.Vasanthakumar, the sitting MP.
Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Pon Radhakrishnan is the BJP candidate from the seat.
In the 2019 general elections, Vasanthakumar had defeated Radhakrishnan by a margin of more than 3 lakh votes.
The Congress wanted 45 seats, but the DMK was adamant to offer a maximum of 21.
Highly placed sources in the Congress said that a late night call by Rahul Gandhi to MK Stalin contributed towards clinching the deal, with the Congress getting 25 Assembly seats and a possible Rajya Sabha seat
The Congress has also been in direct talks with Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) for a third front initiative after the DMK was not willing to budge.
