Tamil Nadu Assembly polls | DMK not to blame for allotting less seats to Congress: P. Chidambaram

Tamil Nadu Assembly polls | DMK not to blame for allotting less seats to Congress: P. Chidambaram

The Hindu

The DMK cannot be blamed for allotting only 25 Assembly seats to the Congress, said Congress senior leader P. Chidambaram in Sivaganga on Sunday. Addressing a meeting of party workers at Keezhaseevalpatti in Tirupathur Assembly Constituency in the district, he said that in 2011, the Congress was given 63 seats from which it won five seats. In the subsequent election (2016), the party got 41 seats and emerged victorious in eight seats.
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