The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday inked the seat-sharing pact with its senior ally, AIADMK, for 20 Assembly seats in the April 6 elections.
The national party will also contest the by-polls to Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat, which it lost in 2019.
The agreement was reached after a week-long negotiations between the BJP and AIADMK. According to the agreement signed between AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam and joint coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP general secretary C T Ravi and Tamil Nadu state unit president L Murugan, the BJP will contest in 20 assembly constituencies.
The constituencies for the BJP will be announced later. With this, the AIADMK has finalised seat-sharing with two parties as it signed the deal with PMK, an influential party among Vanniyars in north Tamil Nadu, last week.
The agreement also said the AIADMK will extend support to BJP in the by-elections to Kanyakumari seat. In 2019, Pon Radhakrishnan of BJP lost the seat to H Vasanthakumar of Congress. However, Vasanthakumar died in August 2020 due to Covid-19 infection.
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