Chennai sources added DMK's ally MDMK named on Tuesday party general secretary Vaiko as its candidate from Tamilnadu for the July 18 Rajya Sabha polls. Meanwhile a high level MDMK meet here decided to nominate its chief Vaiko for the lone seat allotted to it by the DMK as part of a pre-poll agreement. Furthermore a resolution in this regard was adopted in the meet.
Reportedly the 75 year old leader is a staunch supporter of the cause of Tamils in sri Lanka and had been a DMK Rajya Sabha member from 1978 to 1996. Furthermore of the six Rajya Sabha vacancies from Tamilnadu, the ruling AIADMK and DMK could elect three each given their respective strength in the Tamilnadu Assembly. Meanwhile the AIADMK has 123 members including the speaker, the DMK has 100 MLAs, its allies the Congress and IUML seven and one seats respectively in the 234-member House.
Moreover the DMK has already announced former Tamilnadu Additional Advocate General P Wilson and M Shanmugam, the general secretary of its trade union wing, the Labour Progressive Front, as its candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls. Apparently in the AIADMK camp, the names of senior leader K P Munusamy and party veteran Tamil Magan Hussain are doing the rounds for the Rajya Sabha polls and the ruling party has assured one RS seat to its ally PMK in a pre-poll pact.
