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Newly elected legislators – including Chief Minister and laminitis of All India N.R. Congress N. Rangasamy and 2 Ministers who were sworn successful earlier, aft the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retained powerfulness successful the 2026 Assembly elections held connected April 9 successful Puducherry – took oath arsenic MLAs successful the Puducherry Legislative Assembly connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026).
Pro-tem Speaker A. Anbalagan, belonging to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), administered the oath to the members. In the 30-member Assembly, the NDA has secured bulk by winning 18 seats. While Chief Minister’s AlNRC won 12 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 4 seats and the AlADMK and Latchiya Jananayaga Katchi person secured 1 spot each.
Of the remaining members, 5 are from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), 2 from the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), and 1 from the Neyam Makkal Kazhagam (NMK). The 3 others are Independents.
The Chief Minister, who contested from 2 seats, had vacated 1 seat, bringing the existent spot of the Assembly to 29. Out of them, 28 legislators took the oath successful the Well of the House, and 1 of the TVK legislators, Sai J. Saravanan Kumar, who arrived later, was administered the oath by Mr. Anbalagan wrong the Speaker’s enclosure successful the Assembly.
A bulk of the legislators took the oath successful Tamil, but for Minister Malladi Krishna Rao, DMK legislator A. Senthil Kumar, and Independent legislator T. Ashok Kumar. Mr. Rao who represents Yanam, 1 of the enclaves of the UT situated adjacent to Andhra Pradesh, took the oath successful Telugu. The Independent legislator Mr. Kumar, who represents the enclave of Mahe situated adjacent to Kerala, took the oath successful English, though his parent lingua is Malayalam.
DMK MLA’s petition to instrumentality oath successful French
Meanwhile, the determination of the DMK legislator, Mr. Senthil Kumar, who represents the agrarian constituency of Bahour successful Puducherry, to instrumentality the oath successful Malayalam took everyone by surprise. His determination was attributed to a caller circular issued by the CBSE to present the three-language look successful each its affiliated schools successful the country.
A conception of radical and governmental parties successful the UT are of the presumption that the thrust fixed by the CBSE to 2 Indian languages for schoolhouse acquisition successful Puducherry would trim the value fixed traditionally to French, aft the merger of the territory with the Indian Union.
The Bahour legislator had sought support to instrumentality oath successful French but the Assembly Secretariat, citing applicable rules, directed him to instrumentality the pledge successful either of the 4 languages (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, oregon English) utilized for Legislative concern successful the Assembly.
“I wanted to bring the attraction of the authorities to the value of the French connection successful Puducherry by taking the pledge successful that language. However, I was denied support to instrumentality the oath successful French. So, I decided to instrumentality the oath successful Malayalam and bring to prominence the uniqueness of the UT successful the country,” helium said.
13 caller faces
Of the full members elected to the House, 13 are caller faces. Two MLAs are doctors, namely K. Narayanasamy alias Nithyanandam of the AINRC representing Ozhukarai constituency and Independent V. Vigneswaran representing the reserved Nedungadu constituency.
