Updated Feb 18, 2021 | 22:33 IST
Puducherry Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday ordered a floor test in assembly on February 22 amid a political crisis in the Union Territory. Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy | Photo Credit: ANI
Puducherry: Amid the political turmoil in Puducherry, Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Thursday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to bring down a democratically elected government . The BJP is behind all these things. They are all out to bring down a democratically elected government. This is an attempt to bury democracy, ANI quoted the Puducherry CM as saying.
His remarks came hours after Lieutenant Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan announced that the Union Territory of Puducherry will undergo a floor test on February 22. The floor test will ascertain whether the government maintains a majority in the House after a spate of resignations by the ruling party MLAs that has redu
Synopsis A day after the Congress government lost its majority with the resignation of one more MLA, the delegation of all 14 legislators belonging to the opposition in the territorial assembly, led by N Rangasamy, presented a joint memorandum to the officer on special duty, G Theva Needhi Das at Raj Nivas.
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Puducherry:N Rangasamy, leader of the opposition in Puducherry, along with AIADMK floor leader A Anbazhagan and BJP floor leader V Saminathan handed over a petition signed by 14 MLAs to the lieutenant governor s office on Wednesday demanding a floor test in the assembly.
This move is expected to hurt the Congress-led government in the Union Territory as the Puducherry assembly currently has 28 MLAs, after the resignation of four Congress leaders, who can vote in a no-confidence motion. The collapse comes ahead of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s campaigning in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu in the run-up to the upcoming polls.
Puducherry [India], January 13 (ANI): Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Tuesday that he had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to allow political party leaders, ministers and legislators to be vaccinated in the first phase of the nationwide inoculation drive against Covid-19.