Chennai: While the CPI and CPM sought the DMK more seats than 2021 assembly elections, DMK’s seat sharing panel has requested the left parties to settle for lesser seats than the previous election.DMK’s seat sharing panel conveyed to the CPI and CPM leaders during the talks on Friday that they they may be offered one or two seats lesser this time as the alliance has expanded now and more parties have to be given seats. the CPM and CPI were given six seats each in 2021 polls. CPM state secretary P Shanmugham said that the seats would be finalised in the next round of talks. “At the state committee level, we had adopted a resolution that CPM should contest in more constituencies. We conveyed this demand to DMK’s negotiation committee, who said they will discuss this internally and get back to us,” he said.Answering a query on whether a list of preferred constituencies was shared, Shanmugham said no such list was submitted so far, as the first step would be to finalise the number of seats. CPI state secretary M Veerapandian said that they have sought more seats and were awaiting the next round of talks to finalise the number.Shanmugham also said the CPI(M) was not submitting any nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections and that its MLAs would support whichever candidate is fielded by the DMK-led alliance.
