A day after the AIADMK inked a pre-poll alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the opposition DMK stitched a similar alliance with the Congress in Tamil Nadu. The two parties also reached a consensus on the number of seats to contest in the general elections due in April-May.
The Congress party would contest nine Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone parliament seat in Puducherry, said DMK president M.K. Stalin. The DMK will field candidates in the rest of the constituencies.
The constituencies to be given to Congress will be decided in due course of time after holding talks with alliance partners, said Stalin.
In 2014 polls, neither the DMK which had led a four-party alliance, nor the Congress, which contested the polls alone, managed to win a single seat.
