DMK confident of Vijayakanth tie-up

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Unmindful of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s exhortation to her partymen to gift her 40 Lok Sabha seats in the next general elections, her principal opponent namely the DMK is gearing up quietly to upstage Jaya at the hustings by forming a formidable alliance. It is to be noted that alliance alone had decided the winner in successive elections since 2001.

According to sources, DMK considers the break in relation between the AIADMK and the DMDK of Vijayakanth as a blessing in disguise as that has now thrown open the possibility of forging new tie-ups for the Lok Sabha polls.

Sources say that after the sharp exchange of acrimony between Jayalalithaa and Vijayakanth, DMDK would naturally veer towards the DMK if it hopes to open its account in the general elections. It can’t even think of securing its deposit if it were to contest alone for the lower house of Parliament sources said.

DMK-DMDK-Congress would be a powerful coalition in the state if one were to go by the vote share of each of these parties, sources added.

DMK enjoys a vote share of around 25 percent, DMDK around 11 percent and Congress around 10 percent. But the vote share of all these three parties had gone down in the last assembly polls.

DMK had polled 22.38 percent of votes; the DMDK had registered 7.88 percent and the Congress 9.3 percent of votes respectively. And also DMDK was part of the AIADMK led group in the 2011 assembly polls. But in the previous two elections of 2006 assembly polls and 2009 Lok Sabha elections, DMDK had secured 8.5 percent and 10.5 percent of votes respectively.

DMK also is hoping to convert the anti-Jayalalithaa mood that is slowly taking shape on the power crisis front in its favour. In the run-up to the last assembly polls, Jaya had promised to set right the power scenario if voted to power and her dilly-dallying in dealing with the Kudankulam agitators had only irked the people more.

But DMK sources also concede that the AIADMK would easily triumph in the forthcoming Sanakarankovil bye-polls.