The Indian Union Muslim League has formally joined the DMK alliance in the poll-bound Tamil Nadu. Its chief Khader Mohideen met the DMK supremo M.Karunanidhi today at his residence in Chennai and renewed its tie up with the party, ahead of the Assembly polls.
Congress has already announced, it could contest the state assembly election under the DMK-led front.
Earlier Congress and DMK on Saturday announced their coming together for the assembly election in Tamil Nadu. Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad announced that Congress would contest the election in the state as part of the DMK-led front.
However, Congress, beset by factionalism and the exit of former Union minister G K Vasan, has a much smaller footprint in the state today. It may have to settle for fewer seats, probably 25 to 30 out of the total 238. In contrast, it had contested 63 seats in alliance with DMK in 2011 and won five of them.