Congress Govt Fallen in Pondicherry in The Face of Elections
News Highlights
- In the face of elections, the Congress government collapsed in Pondicherry
- Pondicherry Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy lost the confidence vote on Monday
- The Congress government has failed to prove a majority, the speaker announced
In the face of elections, the Congress government collapsed in Pondicherry. Pondicherry Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy lost the confidence vote on Monday. Two Congress MLAs resigned on Sunday. As a result, the Congress government became a minority. Ruling party legislators walked out at the start of the confidence vote in the Pondicherry assembly on the same day. The Congress government has failed to prove a majority, the speaker announced. Narayanaswamy resigned as chief minister after losing the confidence vote.
Congress MLA Laxminararan resigned on Sunday.
He has been elected four times as a Congress MLA. In his resignation letter, he said that he was not getting due importance in the party. So the decision to resign. On the other hand, MLA Venkatesh of the Congress alliance partner DMK decided to leave the party on the same day. However, he has not yet revealed the reason for his resignation.
After his resignation, Congress now held only 12 of the 26 seats in Pondicherry. Pondicherry Congress MLA AJ Kumar recently resigned. It was then that the Congress lost its majority. After John Kumar’s ouster, both the Congress-DMK and AIADMK-BJP alliance had 14 MLAs in the 33-seat assembly in Pondicherry. However, the ruling coalition lost its majority after the resignations of these two MLAs.
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