Puducherry govt in hassle as ally DMK decides to struggle with out Congress in Assembly polls

The Congress-DMK alliance ruling over the Union Territory of Puducherry could also be headed for collapse with the latter saying on Monday that it’s going to contest all 30 seats within the upcoming Assembly elections. Senior DMK chief S Jagathrakshagan made the announcement quickly after a gathering of DMK functionaries in Puducherry.
After chairing the social gathering assembly, Jagathrakshagan addressed a gathering close to Puducherry the place he categorically acknowledged that DMK will contest and win all 30 seats within the UT. To the shock of many, he added: “If we fail (to win polls), I will commit suicide on this stage.”
The emergence of Jagathrakshagan because the centre of energy in Puducherry DMK is seen as an assertion of the chief, who additionally has enterprise pursuits within the UT. However, there hae additionally been some minor variations within the Congress-DMK alliance for the previous three months.
Suggesting that social gathering could also be saying Jagathrakshagan because the Chief Minister candidate quickly, a senior DMK chief in Chennai stated Jagathrakshagan has been aggressively pushing for his CM candidature in Puducherry regardless of the camaraderie between DMK chief M Okay Stalin and Puducherry’s Congress CM V Narayanasamy.
“Even Narayanasamy hoped he could talk and resolve any problem through Stalin. But Jagathrakshagan was adamant. We have only three seats in Puducherry now. The leadership is told that more than five or six winnable candidates will join DMK from other parties before polls to capture power. We will wait and see,” the DMK chief stated.

The chief stated the DMK management in Chennai is of the view that the Congress-led Narayanasamy authorities is unlikely to make a comeback and that it could be higher for the DMK to go together with Jagathrakshagan’s plan and contest alone.
Of 30 seats within the Assembly, the DMK has three seats whereas the alliance chief Congress has 14. On the opposition facet, All India NR Congress has seven seats and AIADMK has 4.
Many observe that DMK’s plan could also be to interrupt away from Congress alliance and contest alone utilizing most “resources” underneath the management of Jagathrakshagan who has enterprise pursuits in India and overseas.
But DMK’s prospects with out the Congress stay uncertain because the social gathering has hardly any presence within the UT. Of the 9 seats they contested, they’d received solely two seats within the final meeting polls. It was a bypoll within the later stage that added yet another seat into their kitty.
While CM Narayansamy was not accessible for remark, sources near him in Puducherry in addition to DMK management in Chennai stated the developments in Puducherry won’t have an effect on the alliance of each events in Tamil Nadu. “It is now necessary these issues are to reflect outside Puducherry. Puducherry is a tiny union territory,” stated a senior DMK chief requesting anonymity.