Puducherry election 2021: Full schedule -Date of issue of gazette notification: March 12 -Last date of nomination: March 19 -Scrutiny of nomination: March 20 -Last date of withdrawal of candidature: March 22 -Dates of polling: April 6 -Date of counting: May 2 Puducherry is a Union Territory (UT), which has a legislative assembly. The UT has an elected chief minister and a nominated Lieutenant Governor (L-G). Until February 22, Velu Narayanasamy served as the 10th chief minister of the UT and former IPS officer and BJP leader Kiran Bedi as the Leutentent governor. The Governor of Telangana, Tamilisai Soundararajan, was given the additional charge of the UT after Bedi was removed from the post.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched several key projects in Puducherry where election is due April/May.
Prime Minister Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and its former president Rahul Gandhi for his remark that there was no fisheries ministry at the Centre. Speaking at a gathering in Puducherry, days after the Congress-led government collapsed in the Union Territory, PM Modi said he was shocked to know that the former Congress chief was unaware about the ministry which was set up by his government in 2019 itself. I was absolutely shocked to hear a Congress leader come and say they want to start a fisheries ministry because there is none. The truth is that it already exists. It was set up in 2019 by the NDA government, PM Modi said.Â
With the resignation of Kamaraj Nagar MLA A John Kumar, the strength of the ruling Congress comes down to 10 and both the treasury and the Opposition will now have 14 members each