PUDUCHERRY: Five days after the
Congress swept to power in Puducherry in alliance with DMK, it is yet to elect its
legislature party leader
in the Union Territory. This is leading to a virtual delay in formation of the new government.
AICC General Secretary V Narayanasamy is now in Delhi holding
parleys
with the party high command, PCC Vice-President A Gandhiraj said. He also said senior Congress leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mukul Wasnik, will arrive in Puducherry on Tuesday to hold parleys with the elected legislators of Congress to reach a consensus on the Congress Legislature Party (
CLP
) leader.
In the May 16 Assembly polls, Congress won 15 seats, while DMK two as the combine unseated the ruling AINRC which ended with eight seats in the 30-member Assembly.
Congress thus avenged its defeat in the 2011 elections at the hands of AINRC founder N Rangasamy who broke away from the national party to form his outfit.
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