Palaniswami meets Shah in Delhi, discusses seat-sharing

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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally of the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Madurai, the Dravidian major’s general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami met Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday night. Though details of the meeting are yet to be revealed, it is understood that the two leaders had discussed seat-sharing for the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu. As of now, most of the constituents of the NDA, when led by the BJP in the State during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, have remained in the coalition, which is being headed by the AIADMK. Former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, an ally of the BJP till mid-2025, has crossed over to the DMK. While the AIADMK has been asserting that in the event of victory at the hustings, it will form a government of its own, many BJP leaders have been claiming that it will be called the NDA regime.