{"id":309586,"date":"2019-02-19T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309586"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:02:43","slug":"bjp-aiadmk-join-hands-for-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-aiadmk-join-hands-for-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP, AIADMK join hands for Lok Sabha polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-aiadmk-join-hands-for-lok-sabha-polls\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309612\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309612 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-696x444.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-1068x681.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance-658x420.jpg 658w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/aiadmk-bjp-alliance.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday closed the deal on its alliance with Tamil Nadu&#8217;s ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The announcement came in a joint press conference held by\u00a0Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswamy, his Deputy O Panneerselvam and Union Minister Piyush Goyal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;BJP will contest on five seats in Lok Sabha elections and we will be contesting together in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry,&#8221; Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam\u00a0said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Speaking on the alliance, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said, &#8220;I am extremely delighted that the AIADMK and the BJP have concluded very fruitful discussions and agreed to contest the parliamentary elections both in Tamil Nadu and by-elections to 21 seats together in alliance along with other friendly partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The AIADMK will contest 21 Lok Sabha seats, earlier in the day, Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) signed an alliance with the ruling AIADMK for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections. The alliance was sealed at a private hotel in Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Speaking to reporters, Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam announced that PMK would contest on seven Lok Sabha seats and one seat in Rajya Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The PMK has pledged support to the ruling party when bye-elections to the 21 seats are held in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday closed the deal on its alliance with Tamil Nadu&#8217;s ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The announcement came in a joint press conference held by\u00a0Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswamy, his Deputy O Panneerselvam and Union Minister Piyush Goyal. &#8220;BJP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309614,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309586\/revisions\/309614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}