DMDK treasurer Premalatha Vijayakant on Friday said an announcement on whether her party will be part of any alliance or fight the coming Lok Sabha polls independently would be made within the next two days. The party president Vijayakant would decide on that and whether the DMDK would contest the bypolls to 21 Assembly constituencies and the local body polls, before issuing one comprehensive press release in two days, she said.
At a press conference in Chennai, Ms. Premalatha said the DMDK was not afraid of fighting the polls alone. “When we were part of the NDA, the last time (in 2014), all alliance partners signed an agreement together. Everything was fine then. All constituencies were announced on a single day,” she said when asked if the AIADMK’s deal with the PMK was causing consternation to the DMDK.
“This time too the talks were proceeding in the same manner. But then, they (AIADMK) signed a pact with the PMK first. Otherwise, this (seat-sharing issue) would have been completed earlier itself,” Ms. Premalatha said.