New Delhi, March 01: Congress in Tamil Nadu is understood to have demanded 75 seats from the DMK in the ensuing Assembly elections and has placed a proposal for share in power if the alliance emerges victorious.
Highly-placed sources said hard bargaining was on from both sides on seat-sharing issues with the Congress demanding 75 assembly constituencies as against the 48 seats it contested during the 2006 polls.
However, the DMK is said to be ready to give only 53 as the ruling party plans to contest at least 140 seats. Last time, it contested 124 seats. But, Congress, according to sources, is insisting on clinching a deal with 75 seats.
The DMK-Congress team has so far held two rounds of talks on seat-sharing in the past ten days, but no headway has been made with both sides sticking to their known stands.
——–PTI