Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) general secretary and the party’s floor leader in the Assembly, Sinthanai Selvan, on Monday said the party will be patient with the DMK for a few more days on the issue of the senior alliance partner breaching the agreement with the junior allies during the indirect elections for top posts in certain urban local bodies.
This approach comes after DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin urged his party members, who did not respect the pre-poll agreement with alliance partners, to resign from their top posts in those local bodies.
The VCK, whose nominees were elected to only eight of the 16 top posts in urban local bodies allotted to it by the DMK, would seek to resolve these issues amicably, but believed that a permanent solution would be to change the form of elections for the posts of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Chairpersons of local bodies from indirect elections to direct election. Mr. Selvan told The Hindu.
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