Chennai: With the deadlock with principal ally Congress over sharing of seats continuing, DMK president M K Stalin will chair a meeting of the party’s district secretaries today.

“The meeting will happen via video conferencing. Issues such as alliance and candidates will be discussed,” sources said.

DMK on Thursday finalised the seat sharing agreement with Viduthalai Chiruthaigal
Katchi (VCK) for the 6 April Assembly elections by allotting six seats to it.

After heactic parleys over the last one week, the seat sharing agreement was signed by Stalin and VCK founder and Lok Sabha member Thol Thirumavalavan.

Earlier, VCK cadres, during a meeting held at its party office, staged a protest against DMK’s decision to allot very less number of seats to it.

However, Thirumavalavan appealed to them to respect the party’s decision as it has decided to accept lesser number of seats to prevent AIADMK-led BJP from winning the elections.

The DMK had already allotted three and two seats to its minor allies IUML and MMK respectively.

The seat sharing talks with key allies Congress and the two left parties–CPI and CPI(M)–yielded no result as they were reluctant to accept the seats offered by the DMK.