Chennai, March 23 -- The BJP, the Vanniyar-OBC dominated Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) faction headed by Dr Anbumani and the AMMK led by TTV Dhinakaran on Monday clinched the seat sharing deal with the AIADMK, heading the Front in Tamil Nadu for the April 23 elections to elect the 234-member 17th Legislative Assembly, in the presence of senior saffron party leader and union Minister Piyish Goyal, who is also the election in-charge for TN.
As per the agreement, the BJP was allotted 27 seats, seven more than it had contested in 2021 polls, Anbumani, who is also a former union Minister and Rajya Sabha MP-elect was allotted 18 seats and Mr Dhinakaran, who had been re-inducted into the NDA after he had quit it a few months back, was allotted 11 s...