The seat-sharing arrangement between the DMK and the Congress will make no difference as the two parties lost heavily in the last Lok Sabha election having been shunned by voters as being scam-tainted (“ >DMK gives Congress 41 seats ”, April 5). The Congress has nothing to lose in tying up with the DMK after G.K. Vasan and Jayanthi Natarajan severed ties with it and went their ways. The AIADMK may have suffered some setback in its flood relief management but its vote bank is intact, notwithstanding the DMK patriarch’s optimism and his son’s novel attempts at galvanising the cadres and people. Other parties in the fringe have a little or no role in the next government formation.
S. Vasudevan,
Chennai
