Puducherry assembly speaker VP Sivakolundhu resigns citing health reasons Puducherry assembly speaker VP Sivakolundhu resigns citing health reasons Puducherry Assembly Speaker VP Sivakolundhu resigned on Sunday citing health reasons even as his brother joined the BJP ahead of the elections in the union territory. advertisement UPDATED: February 28, 2021 22:34 IST Sivakolundhu won from the Lawspet constituency in the 2016 Assembly elections on a Congress ticket. (File photo: neva.gov.in) Puducherry Assembly Speaker VP Sivakolundhu resigned on Sunday citing health reasons even as his brother joined the BJP In his resignation letter to Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Sivakolundhu, a Congress leader, said he quit as Speaker only on health grounds.