Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi to contest 2 seats on DMK symbol

Chennai: DMK on Friday finalised its seat-sharing agreement with Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi (KMDK), allotting two constituencies for the party for the upcoming assembly election.The agreement was signed at the DMK headquarters by chief minister M K Stalin and KMDK general secretary E R Eswaran. KMDK will contest both the seats seats on DMK's ‘rising sun' symbol. In the 2021 assembly elections, KMDK was allotted three constituencies in the DMK-led alliance. The party contested all three on the ‘rising sun' symbol, and Eswaran alone won at Tiruchengode.After signing the deal, Eswaran told reporters the number of seats allotted to his party was reduced as more parties had to be accommodated in DMK's alliance. "Considering the interest of the alliance and the need to win the election, we agreed to contest two seats on the ‘rising sun' symbol," he said. Eswaran criticised AIADMK leadership in the NDA, saying neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor leaders of alliance parties publicly praised Edappadi K Palaniswami's govt. "Modi praises govts of the late M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa, but he did not say a word about Edappadi govt," he said.DMK has signed seat-sharing agreements allotting 28 constituencies to Congress, four to MDMK, and two each to IUML and MMK.