The AIADMK on Monday April 04,2016 decided to go it alone in Puducherry and has
fielded candidates for all 30 seats, ruling out the possibility of an
alliance in the Union Territory.
The AIADMK is also the first party to finalise the list of candidates for all Assembly segments in the Union Teritory.
Senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament P.
Kannan who had recently joined the AIADMK will contest from Raj Bhavan
constituency in the city.
Out of 30 candidates in the list announced by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
and AIADMK General Secretary Jayalalithaa in Chennai on Monday April 04,2016, all five
sitting MLAs find a place and will contest in the same constituencies.
The party has also given ticket to a lone woman contestant — M. Mahadevi in Mannadipet, a rural segment.
With an aim to wrest back Karaikal enclave, once a stronghold of the
AIADMK, the party has given tickets to former MLAs and heavyweights in
all the five constituencies.
Independent MLA V.M.C. Sivakumar who had joined the AIADMK on Sunday
would contest from Neravy T.R. Pattinam and V.K. Ganapathy, former
Congress MLA from Karaikal (South).
Most political functionaries from other parties who had defected from other parties to the AIADMK have also been given tickets.
In the 2011 Assembly elections, the AIADMK contested in alliance with
the ruling AINRC. However, the AIADMK was relegated to the Opposition
bench in the 30-member House, after N. Rangasamy reneged on his word
relating to sharing power and formed a government with the support of an
Independent MLA — VMC Sivakumar.
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