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All for a Seat!!!!!
There has been fast-moving dramatic turns in the political scene
of Tamil Nadu. PMK seeks one of the six Rajya Sabha Seats that
are falling vacant now. The leader of the alliance, the DMK
turns it down. The meeting of the alliance leaders slated for
the seventh has been postponed. PMK has called an emergency
meeting of MPs and MLAs in Chennai on the sixth.
The DMK's stand is that in 2004, the PMK was
accommodated when Anbumani was elected. 'This was during the
term of the previous assembly. That was part of the agreement
prior to the Lok sabha elections. And it does not hold good
now', says the PMK. Ramadoss says his prty has eighteen MLAs in
the Assembly and so his party cannot be treated lightly.
Of the six seats that fall vacant, the DMK alliance can win
five. According to present indications, the DMK and the Congress
will field two each and one would go to the CPI(M).
The Rajya Sabha poll will be a challenge to the diplomacy of the
DMK supremo Karunanidhi. Any wrong step that he takes would
split the alliance at this crucial juncture. It might even
rewrite the verdict of the coming Lok Sabha polls.
And, the AIADMK ia waiting to fish in these troubled waters. Ramakrishnan
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