The DMK on Tuesday introduced the occasion’s two candidates for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha bye-elections to fill the 2 vacant seats from Tamil Nadu opposite to expectation in some Congress quarters that the regional occasion could give one seat to ally Congress.
Sources within the Congress mentioned the DMK had agreed to think about the occasion’s request for a Rajya Sabha seat whereas finalising the seat-sharing deal for the Meeting elections earlier this 12 months. They mentioned the DMK assurance had come after the Congress agreed to accept 25 Meeting seats.
Whereas it isn’t recognized what prompted the DMK to not cede a seat to the Congress, the transfer has triggered a guessing recreation within the grand previous occasion. And it has upset a number of the occasion’s G 23 leaders, which may deepen the distrust between the grouping and the management.
Sources mentioned the G 23 leaders consider DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin was agreeable to giving the seat to former Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, given the latter’s heat private relations with late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi.
A Congress chief mentioned Stalin was eager to present the seat to Azad however the Congress management needed it for Praveen Chakravarty, the pinnacle of the Congress’s Information Analytics Division. In accordance with the chief, there was no response from the DMK to the Congress’s suggestion.
On Tuesday, Stalin introduced the occasion’s two candidates – Kanimozhi N V N Somu and Okay R N Rajeshkumar. Kanimozhi is the daughter of late Union minister N V N Somu. Rajeshkumar is DMK’s Namakkal (East) district in cost.
Each Azad and Chakravarty couldn’t be reached for a response.
A Congress chief mentioned the DMK maybe has determined to present the Rajya Sabha seat to the Congress in June subsequent 12 months when 5 seats from the state will fall vacant as a result of retirement of members for the reason that Congress management was not heat to the concept of giving the seat to Azad.
The chief mentioned the Congress management maybe desires the seat to be given to senior chief P Chidambaram, who retires in July subsequent 12 months. Chidambaram is presently a member from Maharashtra.
