Chennai, Feb. 26 -- Filing of nominations for the March 16 biennial elections to fill six seats that would fall vacant from the TamilNadu Assembly in April, began on Thursday.
On the opening day, none has filed the papers as none of the two Dravidian majors, the ruling DMK and the Opposition AIADMK, were yet to finalise their candidates.
With the alliance parties in their respective fronts bargining for RS berths, the candidates are expected to be finalised during seat sharing talks for the ensuing Assembly elections.
In the DMK, key allies, Congress, MDMK and new entrant DMDK of late-actor Vijayakanth, have sought RS berths, while the PMK faction was said to have sought one of the two RS seats which the AIADMK could win on its own.
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