In what has become one of the high-level political dramas over seat-sharing ahead of the assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the Central ruling BJP and the state ruling ADMK have been finding difficulty in reaching an amicable resolution to shape a potent alliance before hitting the campaign trail by finalizing the constituencies. 

Tamil Nadu is getting ready for the crucial legislative elections and the state will be going to the single-phase polls on April 6 and the votes will be counted on May 2 during which the results will be declared. Amid the long-simmering expectations that the state would possibly witness four to five fronts in the polls, the top political parties in the state have been chalking out the final level of talks to accommodate the allied parties in the alliance. 

As the election is just one month away, both ADMK and DMK have initiated the drive to strike a deal with the allied parties over the seat-sharing and constituencies. While the ruling ADMK had made a deal with Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) on Saturday by allocating 23 seats, it has now been in talks with the Central ruling BJP over the seat-sharing and amid the incessant discussions, ADMK and BJP are observing deadlock over reaching consensus.

In the absence of political giants Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, BJP strongly hopes to gain a political breakthrough in the state by emerging as the successful party and to finally witness dawn over dusk. Using the existing alliance with the ADMK as the better prospect, the BJP has been in talks with the ADMK leadership to finish a big deal, pushing the state ruling party to a state of balancing its allegiance to the BJP and its drive of meeting the demands from other allied parties. 

With the view of striking a big deal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had come to the picture and initiated talks with the ADMK leaders to grab more seats for BJP. According to reports, the ADMK leadership had held seat-sharing talks with Amit Shah on Sunday. ADMK leaders - Edappadi Palaniswami and Panneerselvam had met the Home Minister on Sunday at a star hotel in Chennai and the talks had begun at around 10 pm on Sunday and both the parties are yet to make a balanced deal. 

As BJP is an important ally of ADMK, the Tamil Nadu ruling party has been working towards the possibilities to meet the demand from BJP. The Central ruling party has expected 60 assembly seats from ADMK and the BJP had claimed that it can win the seats and it has demanded the ADMK to allocate at least 33 seats out of 60. BJP would become the second-largest party in the alliance after ADMK in terms of seat allocation. However, the reports say that ADMK is not ready to accept the demand from BJP. 

The ADMK leaders are planning to offer not more than 25 seats to any allied parties and they are willing to give only between 15-20 seats to the BJP. It has been expected that the BJP can field its candidates in some of the seats in Chennai, Coimbatore, and Kanyakumari. While the ADMK has planned to offer seats to BJP below PMK that shocked the Central ruling party, the BJP has kept the talks on the table by not accepting ADMK's plan of providing 15-20 seats.

During the talks on Sunday, Senior BJP leader BL Santhosh and Tamil Nadu BJP President Murugan were also present along with Panneerselvam's son Ravindranath Kumar. As there was no deal reached on Sunday, the talks have been continuing on Monday amid the bid from both parties not to make any delays in attaining the deal. According to reports, as BJP is not ready to accept the deal from ADMK, the top leaders of the Tamil Nadu ruling party had on Monday convened an important meeting with the senior party leaders to discuss BJP's demand and their opinion on the seat-sharing and constituencies. 

ADMK has to accommodate BJP, PMK (Ramadoss), DMDK (Vijayakanth), and TMC (GK Vasan) in its alliance and while ADMK aims to directly contest in 170 to 180 seats, the rest of the seats would be allocated for the allied parties. While ADMK had already allotted 23 seats to PMK and made a deal on Saturday, the state ruling party is steering ahead to meet more challenges from the other parties including BJP and DMDK. 

The reports say that DMDK has also been demanding 30 seats from ADMK. Being at the state of not losing the alliance which will further deteriorate the party, the ball is on the ADMK's court and any foul plays would push the party to meet adverse impacts in the polls. The sources say that the ADMK is pacing up to complete the talks with the allied parties within this week to get ready for a must-win election.