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DMK completes seat-sharing arrangement
for Pondicherry

In a swift move, DMK on Tuesday night completed its seat apportioning exercise for Pondicherry, keeping 13 seats for itself to contest in the May 10 assembly polls.

The party's allies Puducherri (Pondicherry) Makkal Congress has been allotted nine seats, BJP five, Dalit Panthers of India two and one seat to Janata Dal (U), a DMK press release said.

Earlier in the day, former TMC leader and founder of PMC, P Kannan held discussions with DMK chief and NDA head in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry M Karunanidhi. The hour-long talks culminated in the allocation of nine seats to the PMC.

After the talks, Kannan told mediapersons that he was fully satisfied with the allocation.

Later, a BJP team led by its Tamil Nadu vice-president K N Lakshamanan and its Pondicherry unit president A M Krishnamurthy held similar talks with Karunanidhi.

After the talks, Krishnamurthy told mediapersons at the DMK headquarters in Madras that his party would be contesting five seats.

DMK spokesperson S Ganesan, later told reporters that an agreement was reached between JD (U) and DMK and the party had been given one seat.

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