Chennai: AIADMK, BJP, PMK cobble up alliance
The BJP got five seats and is said to be bargaining for one Rajya Sabha seat too for its national secretary H. Raja.
Chennai: The AIADMK on Tuesday forged a rainbow coalition by sealing seat-sharing pacts with the BJP and the PMK and looking set to complete the entire process with the rest of the allies anytime now, even as the rival DMK-Congress camp meandered through multiple sessions in Delhi.
The BJP got five seats and is said to be bargaining for one Rajya Sabha seat too for its national secretary H. Raja, while the PMK (Pattal Makkal Katchi) of Dr S. Ramadoss has been given seven Lok Sabha seats and one Rajya Sabha berth.
Announcing it as a “mega alliance and a victorious coalition”, Union Minister and BJP senior Piyush Goyal and AIADMK coordinator and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam told a crowded media conference at a star hotel here that they were confident of winning all the 40 seats, including the lone Lok Sabha constituency in Puducherry.