INDIA’S REGIONAL PARTY PMK TO JOIN RULING ALLIANCE FOR SOUTHERN STATE POLLS
By ANIMonday, January 31, 2011
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India’s regional party PMK to join ruling alliance for southern state polls.
India’s regional party Pattali Makkal Katchi will join another regional party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led ruling alliance for the upcoming assembly elections in southern Tamil Nadu state, says Muthuvel Karunanidhi, chief of the province and president of DMK.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA (JANUARY 30, 2011) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)
1. EXTERIOR OF TAMIL NADU HOUSE
2. BOARD READING ‘TAMIL NADU HOUSE’
3. POSTER OF MUTHUVEL KARUNANIDHI, CHIEF OF INDIA’S SOUTHERN TAMIL NADU STATE
4. PICTURES OF OTHER STATE LEADERS
5. POSTER OF KARUNANIDHI
6. PEOPLE WAITING TO WELCOME KARUNANIDHI
7. KARUNANIDHI ARRIVING ON A WHEEL CHAIR
8. (SOUNDBITE) (Tamil) MUTHUVEL KARUNANIDHI, CHIEF OF INDIA’S SOUTHERN TAMIL NADU STATE, SAYING: “(Question) In the DMK-led alliance which other political parties are going to be your partner apart from Congress and DMK?
(Answer) Viduthalai Chiruthai, PMK, Muslim League are the parties, that is.”
9. KARUNANIDHI
10. (SOUNDBITE) (Tamil) MUTHUVEL KARUNANIDHI, CHIEF OF INDIA’S SOUTHERN TAMIL NADU STATE, SAYING: “I will meet the Prime Minister and also Sonia Gandhi.
(Question) What will you discuss?
(Answer) I will discuss election.
(Question) What about the seat sharing?
(Answer)… how many seats and which seats?
11. SECURITY PERSONNEL TAKING KARUNANIDHI ON WHEEL CHAIR INTO A LIFT
12. DOORS OF LIFT CLOSING
13. A VEHICLE ARRIVING
STORY: India’s regional party Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) would join another regional party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led ruling alliance for the upcoming assembly elections in southern Tamil Nadu state, said Muthuvel Karunanidhi, chief of the province and president of DMK, on Sunday (January 30).
PMK headed by S Ramadoss, which fought the 2009 parliamentary elections along with the provincial main opposition regional party AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), will now be part of the ruling coalition.
“(Question) In the DMK-led alliance which other political parties are going to be your partner apart from Congress and DMK?
(Answer) Viduthalai Chiruthai, PMK, Muslim League are the parties, that is,” said Karunanidhi, on a visit to national capital New Delhi.
Karunanidhi, who is in New Delhi on a three-day visit, will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and federal ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday (January 31) to discuss the seat-sharing agreement between the two parties for the state polls due before the term of the present assembly expires in May.
“I will meet the Prime Minister and also Sonia Gandhi.
(Question) What will you discuss?
(Answer) I will discuss election.
(Question) What about the seat sharing?
(Answer)… how many seats and which seats?
The Congress is believed to be demanding around 80 to 90 seats in the 234-member House, DMK is likely to part with no more than 60-65 seats. In the last state polls in 2006, Congress party contested 48 seats.
