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(MENAFN - NewsBytes) The Indian National Congress-led government in the union territory of Puducherry is now in minority with the resignation of lawmaker A John Kumar on Tuesday. Kumar, who represented the Kamaraj Nagar constituency, is the fourth lawmaker of the Congress party to have quit over the past month. The resignation comes a day ahead of party leader Rahul Gandhi's visit to the UT. In this article Kumar resigned citing 'dissatisfaction with Congress government' 2 Congress lawmakers joined BJP last month Party's strength in Assembly slips to 10 Gandhi to visit Puducherry t...

Kumar's resignation comes close on the heels of senior party legislator Malladi Krishna Rao, who had earlier quit as Health minister

URL copied Dr Kiran Bedi has been removed as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. Dr. Kiran Bedi has been removed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry while Governor of Telangana, Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, has been given the additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. The development has come on the day when the Congress-led government in the Union Territory slipped into a minority after one more legislator resigned reducing its tally in the assembly. Kiran Bedi will "cease to hold" the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokespers...

The Congress and its allies have 14 seats in the Puducherry Assembly, same as the opposition.

Puducherry Chief Minister Velu Narayanasamy (L); Kiren Bedi. (Photo: Twitter/Velu Narayanasamy | PTI) Hours after the President of India removed Kiran Bedi as the Puducherry Lieutenant Governor late Tuesday, Chief Minister Velu Narayanasamy said the move came as a "victory" for the people of the Union Territory. He further accused the former L-G of running a "parallel government" in Puducherry. "The removal of Dr Kiran Bedi was our demand for the last four-and-a-half years and we have been fighting with the government of India. We have been raising the issue with the prime minister [Narendra...