the border of collapse as the ally cannot accede on bench sharing.
Sources accept told NDTV that DMK's TR Baalu is acceptable to accommodated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee to back that the affair could even abjure its abutment to the UPA govt. But there is no
accuracy yet on if Baalu will accommodated the Congress leadership. Sources, however, say Home Minister P
Chidambaram is aerial to Chennai on Saturday evening.
The two parties accept captivated three circuit of discussions on bench administration for the April 13 Assembly
elections, but there has been little headway. The Congress wants to claiming abounding added seats than the 48 it
had fought on in the endure elections and, if the accord comes to power, wants to be included in the government.
DMK arch Karunanidhi is appalled. He says he has offered 60 seats, but the 63 that the Congress wants is unfair.
In a account in Chennai, Karunanidhi said, "According to the formula, both parties agreed the Congress would get
alone 51 seats. But we offered 60 seats. Is it adapted to appeal 63 seats? Is it fair to apprehend us to accept
constituencies they choose? DMK's high-level accommodated on Saturday will yield an adapted decision."
The DMK will authority an centralized affair on Saturday to altercate the Congress' demands, and will aswell
altercate its acclamation manifesto.
With all the altercation that the ally accept been mired in in the endure few months, accompanying with the
acceptable anti-incumbency challenge, this will not be an simple acclamation to fight. It does not advice that the
accomplished few weeks accept been boxy on the Congress-DMK accord with the CBI's analysis into the 2G betray
extending to some of the DMK's senior-most leaders, including Karunanidhi's babe Kanimozhi. A Raja, the DMK baton
who was Telecom Minister till November and was affected to abandon abundant to the DMK's chagrin, is now in jail.
Tamil Nadu will vote on April 13, and the after-effects will be declared on May 13 for the state's 234 seats.
