Earlier this week, the BJP had released a list of nine candidates for the Puducherry Assembly elections.
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Congress has punished the veteran for failing to defend the Congress government from poaching which resulted in President’s Rule in the Union Territory, a few weeks before the Assembly election, and for deliberately misleading Rahul Gandhi with a wrong translation.
The Asianet News Cfore pre-poll survey predicts that the three-party alliance of the AIADMK, BJP and former Chief Minister N Rangaswamy's All India NR Congress will sweep the elections with an absolute majority.
The party announced nominees for seats including Urulayanpettai, Mudaliarpet Tai and Raj Bhavan and said in a statement that the candidate for Bagur will be named later.
According to a survey conducted by research agency Renaissance Foundation, the AIADMK-BJP alliance could end up winning 23 out of the 30 assembly seats in the Union Territory.
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