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CHENNAI: After negotiating with AIADMK and DMK for a poll alliance, PMK seems to have decided to join the AIADMK-BJP front, multiple sources told TOI on Monday.Union minister Piyush Goyal , who has been negotiating with AIADMK and PMK, will arrive in Chennai on Tuesday. Due to altering numbers for parties, the AIADMK-BJP quota is likely to become either 23:17 or 24:16 (for the 40 seats in TN and Puducherry),” said a source. After some hard bargaining, the AIADMK-BJP camp has all but formalized an alliance with the PMK, but it was touch and go, said people privy to the hectic political confabulations.Anbumani was keen on tying up with the DMK-led front. Insiders said he is still sore with the BJP for denying him a ministerial berth after he won the Dharmapuri seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The whole thing has been coordinated by a leading industrialist..