THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ahead of Assembly polls in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the Legendary Congress leader and former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday arrived in Chennai for a significant discussion with DMK chief M.K. Stalin. Tamil Nadu, Kerala elections will be on discussion
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, currently in Kerala attending to his Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, asked Oommen Chandy to head for Chennai to begin talks with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
Speaking to IANS over phone from Chennai, Oommen Chandy said he had just arrived and his first task is to meet with all the top Congress leaders in Tamil Nadu.
In the 2016 Assembly polls, the DMK had contested 178 seats, while the Congress fought on 41 seats and won just eight, in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly.
In a political development, AICC appointed Oommen Chandy as representative of the party for seat-sharing talks in Tamil Nadu assembly elections. The senior Congress leader in Kerala has reached Chennai to meet DMK chief Stalin. Although in Puducherry, DMK has said that it won’t go for ties with Congress, Ommen Chandy is likely to push for electoral pacts with DMK.
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