Chennai sources stated that DMK chief M K Stalin on Monday said there was no meeting of the UPA being convened by sonia gandhi on May 23, the day votes in the Lok Sabha elections will be counted. He told reporters "Who said there is an opposition parties meeting on the 23rd. The meeting will be useful only election results". Previously there were reports that sonia gandhi has invited leaders of the constituent of United Progressive Alliance in delhi for planning a strategy to checkmate BJP from staking claim to power if the NDA falls short of majority.
Furthermore some non-UPA party leaders were also said to have been sounded for the meeting, it was reported. Hence this is for the first time that both the AIADMK and the DMK have contested in the absence of their supreme leaders J jayalalitha and M Karunanidhi respectively.
Moreover after Jayalalitha’s death, her aide Sasikala’s nephew has formed a new party named AMMK which saw 18 MLAs of AIADMK moving to AMMK. AMMK would split AIADMK votes and may help the DMK.
