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Congress to have seat-sharing talks
with AIADMK

The Congress high command is deputing senior Congress leader and West Bengal Congress president Pranab Mukherjee for seat-sharing talks with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagan for the coming assembly polls.

Disclosing this to reporters after garlanding AIADMK founder late M G Ramachandran's statue on his 86th birth anniversary in Madras on Wednesday, AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha said Mukherjee would meet her on Jan 20.

Jayalalitha said AICC president Sonia Gandhi informed her about the party's decision to send Mukherjee.

Significantly, Jayalalitha, who had been convicted and sentenced to three years' RI in the TANSI land deal case by a special court in Madras, said there was no question of projecting anybody else except her as the chief ministerial candidate for the coming elections.

The conviction, which effectively barred her from contesting any elections for six years, could be contested in a court of law, she said.

She also once again rejected the demand of her allies Congress and Tamil Maanila Congress for a share in power if the front was voted to power and said her party was not receptive to the idea of a coalition government in Tamil Nadu.

She said people of Tamil Nadu had always given a clear verdict and claimed that various surveys and intelligence reports had clearly indicated that her party would emerge victorious in the coming polls.

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