Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021: BJP Brings List of 60 Constituencies to AIADMK, You Can Get 21 |

CHENNAI: Prime Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam met with Union Interior Minister Amit Shah on Sunday to finalize the BJP’s seats in the AIADMK alliance for the upcoming assembly elections. The discussion that started around 10 p.m. continued past midnight in a private hotel in the city after Shah returned from his campaign in Karaikal in the Union territory of Puducherry and Villupuram in Tamil Nadu.
AIADMK sources said that the ruling camp conveyed to the BJP delegation, headed by state President L Murugan, who visited EPS and OPS on Saturday morning, that it would be possible to offer 21 seats to the national party, as the PMK wanted be the oldest. the majority of partners. “Talks can be completed with the BJP tonight. The AIADMK leadership is interested in finalizing the seats in one or two days with other allies, ”said a party source.

Present were the BJP’s national secretary general, BL Santosh, Murugan, in addition to senior party officials and the only AIADMK MP, P Raveendranath Kumar.
The BJP has a list of 60 electoral districts in which it obtained a “remarkable” number of votes in elections in the past. The party is negotiating for a number higher than the PMK. The AIADMK had sealed an electoral pact with PMK on Saturday by offering 23 seats, a day after passing the bill for the exclusive vanniyar quota within the MBC reservation.

AIADMK wants to contest between 170 and 180 seats to obtain the majority by itself to form the government, a historic third consecutive victory.
‘BJP has gained strength in the state’
The ABJP central committee member said: “The BJP has gained strength in recent years, but the AIADMK leadership says that our party does not even have cabin-level agents in certain districts. Amit Shah told the party’s central committee in Villupuram on Sunday to increase your public visibility, work at the grassroots level and get along with electoral partners. ”
Meanwhile, a three-member team from the DMDK, including Presidium President V Elangovan, Propaganda Secretary Alagapuram R Mohanraj and Undersecretary B Parthasarathy held talks with Ministers P Thangamani and SP Velumani. The ministers had visited the leader of the DMDK, Vijayakanth, at the latter’s residence on Saturday night. On Saturday, DMK Treasurer Premalatha during her meeting with party members in Kallakurichi said: “Even if we counted alone, we would get more than 10% of the shared vote. But the Captain (Vijayakanth) aims for an alliance to win a victory. ”