CHENNAI: Ending days of suspense over its leaning in the coming general elections,

deputy secretary L K Sudheesh on Thursday said the talks with the

and the

were completed and announcement on the number of seats and constituencies would be made known in two days.

The DMDK leader went into a huddle with Union minister Piyush Goyal and AIADMK ministers S P Velumani and P Thangamani on Wednesday and later at night for over three hours, discussing alliance.

“There is no deadlock in talks. Prime Minister was here yesterday, but we could not go. I went there (to the hotel) to convey in person our inability to attend, else media will blow the issue out of proportion,” Sudheesh told reporters.

The DMDK began poll talks with the AIADMK late after being insisted by the BJP that it was the AIADMK-led alliance in the state. “Even while we began, the AIADMK signed a deal with the PMK (for seven LS seats and one RS seat) the next day. We were upset. Had it been on the same day with all allies, the issue would not have come thus far,” he said, adding that the

approached the DMDK a couple of days later.

The DMDK leader said he had spoken to Duraimurugan ten days ago and denied speaking again on Wednesday, even as he was holding hectic parleys with AIADMK and BJP leaders in a city hotel, just ahead of PM Modi’s public rally.

The party suffered a huge embarrassment when the DMK on Wednesday shut the doors to DMDK’s last-ditch effort to revive the poll talks, after the DMDK leadership failed to prevail upon the AIADMK-BJP to get the seats on a par with the PMK. A DMDK delegation led by party Salem Urban secretary A Elangovan visited DMK treasurer Duraimurugan’s Kotturpuram residence to seal the poll-deal in full media glare. Duraimurugan later told reporters that he had received a call from Sudheesh, who inclined to be in DMK alliance.

Miffed over Duraimurugan’s “public shaming,” Sudheesh said his party functionaries visited the DMK leader for personal reasons and nothing related to politics. “Can I also say what Duraimurugan had spoken to me? I can’t. It will be ugly, if I talk about what the DMK leader has spoken about his party and high command,” he said, refusing to get into the details.

“My upbringing is different from his,” he said.

Sudheesh took a dig at Duraimurugan for stating that he had decided not to disturb his leader, M K Stalin, as the later was taking rest. “They are not bothered about the state. What if his leader sleeps or not?”