Puducherry meeting elections: A Johnkumar and V Vaithilingam amongst dynasty candidates in fray | India Information
NEW DELHI: The upcoming Puducherry meeting elections will see a number of candidates with robust political household backgrounds contesting throughout varied constituencies.
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A complete of 291 candidates are within the fray for the April 9 elections. Polling is held to elect 30 members of the 33-seat Puducherry legislative meeting, whereas the remaining three members are nominated by the central authorities.
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Distinguished dynasty candidates
A Johnkumar: BJP chief A Johnkumar, a minister within the outgoing N Rangasamy-led authorities and the sitting MLA from Kamaraj Nagar, is contesting from Nellithope. He had earlier received the identical seat as a Congress candidate within the 2016 elections. The constituency has remained underneath the household’s affect, along with his son Richards Johnkumar successful it in 2021 on a BJP ticket.
Dynasty candidates
V Vaithilingam: A high-profile contest is ready to happen in Thattanchavady, the place former chief minister V Vaithilingam is contesting towards the outgoing chief minister N Rangasamy. Vaithilingam, the son of Puducherry’s second chief minister V Venkatasubba Reddiar, is at the moment the Puducherry Congress president and the sitting Lok Sabha MP from the Union territory’s solely Lok Sabha seat, additionally referred to as Puducherry. The end result of this contest is predicted to have a bearing on the chief ministerial race.Vignesh Kannan: Within the Raj Bhavan constituency, DMK candidate Vignesh Kannan is making his electoral debut. The son of former Puducherry minister P Kannan, he’ll tackle Puducherry BJP chief VP Ramalingam in what’s shaping as much as be a intently watched contest.
The alliances
The elections shall be a direct conflict between the ruling Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition Congress-DMK alliance. The NDA in Puducherry is led by chief minister N Rangasamy’s All India NR Congress, which can contest 16 seats. The BJP has been given the remaining 14 constituencies, of which it has given two every to the AIADMK and businessman Jose Charles Martin’s newly fashioned Latchiya Jananayaga Katchi (LJK).
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The Congress and DMK can even contest underneath an analogous association of 16 and 14 seats, respectively.
