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A senior woman leader of IUML’s Tamil Nadu unit has protested the Indian Union Muslim League high command parting with one seat to be allotted by DMK to meet the Congress demand for 63 seats for the April 13 Assembly polls.
She described as “unilateral” the IUML high command’s decision to part with one seat,and demanded that national president and Union Minister E Ahamed and IUML’s state president Khader Mohideen resign over the matter.
“We,however,are not against the high command of DMK or Congress. Our party high command’s unilateral decision to part with one seat has not gone down well with both the Muslim community and the IUML. The entire Muslim community and the IUML are revolting against the high command,” she claimed.
Muzaffer said the IUML should be given its “due share” of three seats and insisted that the party contest only on its own Ladder symbol.
She said the party’s General Council and Exceutive were likely to be convened soon to review the situation.
To a question,she did not rule out aligning with any another party but said IUML was firm on contesting on their own symbol to “uphold the dignity and maintain our identity.”
According to the IUML’s seat-sharing pact with DMK,it was initally allotted three seats,and announced that its candidates would fight on the DMK’s symbol ,the Rising Sun.
However,it had to forego one seat alongwith PMK,when the Congress remained firm on its demand for 63 seats,which had strained its ties with its key southern ally.
Ahamed had said his party’s “generosity” of giving away one seat and settling for two was instrumental in ending the impasse borne out of seat-sharing differences between DMK and Congress.
