CONGRESS-DMK ISSUE

HEADLINES:
1. Congress-DMK confrontation: SP insists no threat to government (THE ECONOMIC TIMES)
2. DMK pulls out of Centre; to give issue-based support to UPA govt.(DNA)
3. Congress plays hardball after DMK pulls out
4. (IBNpolitics)
4 Our generosity saved Congress, DMK poll alliance: Muslim League (indianexpress.com)
5. Cong speaks to DMK on seat sharing issue(IBNpolitics)

NEWS:
The DMK in a meeting on Saturday passed a resolution to pull its ministers out of the UPA cabinet following a conflict with the Congress over seat-sharing for the forthcoming Tamil Nadu elections. The DMK has called the Congress’ demand to contest 63 out of the 234 constituencies as “unjustified”.
If it gives away 60 seats to the Congress, which it reportedly is ready to do, the DMK would be left with 122 for itself. If it concedes 63, it will be left with only 119, which is just two over the halfway mark in the 234-member house.Seat sharing is also an issue,” DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi had blurted out in an unguarded moment a day after his party threatened to pull out six union ministers from the UPA because the talks with the Congress over constituency allocation for the polls had broken down.

Compiled by Maulik Doshi