Congress-DMK alliance ahead in 27 seats in Tamil Nadu

May 17th, 2009 CHENNAI - Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leaders on Sunday expressed their jubilation at the results of the Lok Sabha elections. The DMK-Congress combine, which won 28 seats in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, is now ready to review the post-poll scenario.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - Many of the Congress' top leaders were trailing in Tamil Nadu though its alliance with the DMK and the VCK had won eight seats and was leading on eighteen. The rival AIADMK front that includes the Left parties, MDMK and PMK was ahead in 12.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - An hour into counting of votes for the 15th Lok Sabha elections, the DMK-Congress-VCK alliance was leading in 14 of the 39 constituencies in Tamil Nadu while the rival AIADMK front that includes the Left parties was leading in five seats. Notable contestants who are leading are M.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - The counting of votes cast for the 15th Lok Sabha polls began at 8 a.m. Saturday in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - The DMK-Congress-VCK alliance is leading in 14 of the 39 constituencies in Tamil Nadu while the rival AIADMK front that includes the Left parties is leading in five seats. Krishnaswamy, AKS Vijayan, TKS Elangovan, TR Baalu and V Tamizharasi are leading in their respective constituencies, while those trailing are Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, Mani Shankar Iyer, KV Thankabalu and EVKS Elangovan.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - The DMK-Congress-VCK alliance won 27 of the 39 parliamentary seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry's sole Lok Sabha seat, Election Commission officials announced Saturday. The AIADMK-led front comprising the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the MDMK bagged 12 seats.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance will lead with 210 to 225 seats and its ally DMK will do extremely well in Tamil Nadu, the CNN-IBN news channel projected Friday evening, hours before the Lok Sabha vote count begins. The channel placed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance as winning 180 to 195 seats, in a post-poll projection.

May 14th, 2009 CHENNAI - The AIADMK Thursday preferred to maintain a studied silence on the Congress' overtures and said the party was keeping its options open till the Lok Sabha results are out on Saturday. Congress spokesperson Digvijay Singh said in New Delhi that he did not consider AIADMK boss J.

May 13th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said the Congress-led coalition would again form the government at the Centre. Speaking to media persons after casting his vote, Karunanidhi said, "It will be again a Congress-led government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls." He said the DMK-Congress would appear victorious in all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

May 9th, 2009 CHENNAI - Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad Saturday reiterated there is no talk of an alliance between the party and AIADMK after elections. 'It has been nowhere said that the Congress is going to have a post-poll alliance with the AIADMK,' Azad, the AICC general secretary in-charge of Tamil Nadu, told a news channel here.

May 6th, 2009 CHENNAI - Reiterating her call for a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka, AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha Wednesday said the Indian Army would be sent to the island nation to carve out Tamil Eelam state if her alliance wins all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

April 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Congress Thursday re-nominated union ministers Mani Shankar Aiyar and P. Chidambaram for Mayladuthurai and Sivaganga seats respectively from Tamil Nadu.

April 4th, 2009 CHENNAI - The alliance of opposition parties in Tamil Nadu formed under the leadership of AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalitha for the Lok Sabha polls has started to unravel, leaders in some of the alliance partners said here Saturday.

March 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, last night finalised a seat-sharing arrangement with its allies, the Congress, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). According to the deal, the Congress will contest 15 Tamil Nadu seats and one seat in Puducherry, the VCK, a Dalit party, got two seats and the IUML got one.

March 28th, 2009 CHENNAI - AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha Saturday announced a seat-sharing pact with the PMK for the Lok Sabha election, giving it six seats in Tamil Nadu and one in nearby Puducherry and describing her larger alliance as 'an unbeatable winning combination'.