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Puducherry: Narayanasamy out of contest, BJP fields Congress rebels The Congress, which is in alliance with the DMK, is contesting in 15 of the 30 seats in Puducherry. While the DMK will field candidates in 13 constituencies, the other allies VCK and CPI will contest in one seat each Chennai: Former Puducherry CM Narayanasamy is unlikely to contest in the April 6 Assembly elections to the Union Territory, if the Congress first list is anything to go by. The Congress high command in New Delhi late on Tuesday released a list of 14 candidates in which Narayansamy’s name was missing. Only on...

Updated: Share Article AAA In a bizarre development, allies within the NDA stand as adversaries at the moment in the Nellithope Assembly segment with the candidates of the BJP and the AIADMK filing nominations for the seat on Monday. This comes against the backdrop of the NDA agreement allotting 16 seats to AINRC and the BJP staking claim for a larger slice of the 14-seat pie it has to share with the AIADMK. Om Sakthi Sekar of the AIADMK and his son Tamil Sengolan filed their nominations for Nellithope while son of A. John Kumar, now with the BJP — J. Vivilian Richards — also submitted th...

Former Ministers M Kandasamy and R Kamalakannan have been fielded again in Embalam (reserved) and Tirunallar in Karaikal respectively. The 14 seats are spread over Puducherry (10), Karaikal (three) and Mahe (one).

Puducherry [India], March 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a list of nine candidates for the upcoming Puducherry assembly elections on Tuesday.

The NDA, comprising AINRC AIADMK and the BJP, is going ahead with a clear vision and in full coordination to romp home in the April 6 Assembly elections here, BJP in-charge of Puducherry Nirmal Kumar Surana said on Wednesday. Already, Surana told reporters, the NDA has finalised that AINRC would contest in 16 out of the total 30 seats here. The AIADMK and BJP which have been earmarked the remaining 14 seats would decide soon the number of seats the two parties would share between themselves. "We are going ahead with full coordination and in a smooth manner. Our alliance is now carrying ou...