Congress-DMK talks on seat sharing continue

Chennai: The Congress and DMK continue talks over seat sharing for the upcoming assembly elections in Tamil nadu. DMK leaders M K Alagiri, Dayanidhi Maran and S S Palanimanickam met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today. Maran and Alagiri met the Congress President late last night and discussed the seat sharing issue. They have informed Mr. M. Karunanidhi about the details of the talks held with the Congress Chief. Informed sources said that headway has been made in the talks and a formula of seat sharing will be finalized soon. However, nothing has been said on record by the two parties.
The talks resumed between the Congress and DMK after a stand off when senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee held telephonic conversation with DMK Chief yesterday. Later talking to newsmen senior DMK leader M.K. Stalin said in Chennai that the ministers of the party have deferred their decision to submit resignation to the Prime Minister. He also said that the Congress party has informed the DMK leadership that it will get back to it on how many seats it wants if the two parties decide to contest Tamil Nadu assembly elections as alliance partners. The party had earlier announced to pull away its ministers from the Union Council following stalemate on the seat sharing.