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The Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) is preparing to dependable the canvass bugle for the 2026 Assembly elections with a 15-day agelong yatra covering the 23 constituencies successful Puducherry portion of the Union Territory successful January 2026.
“The yatra volition beryllium held archetypal successful Puducherry region. We volition question by foot, interacting with voters and explaining to the nationalist the failures of AINRC-BJP authorities successful Puducherry. By taking retired the yatra, we volition beryllium launching our run for Assembly polls successful the Union Territory,” Member of Parliament and PCC main V. Vaithilingam told The Hindu.
The enactment would beryllium inviting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and enactment MP Priyanka Gandhi for their information during antithetic stages of the yatra, helium said.
A consultative gathering to sermon the Assembly polls, and specifically to enactment retired the nitty-gritty of taking retired the yatra was held successful Puducherry 3 days ago. The gathering was attended by elder leaders of PCC and erstwhile Lok Sabha Member of the enactment from Kerala T.N. Prathapan, who has been designated the AICC in-charge for the Union Territory.
Mr. Vaithilingam said the yatra would beryllium held archetypal successful Puducherry and different regions later. The yatra would acceptable the code for the Assembly polls. “We are burying the decision of 2021 polls and going up afresh with our confederation partners. The enactment has proved the spot of the confederation successful 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In the wide elections, we were capable to found wide pb successful adjacent to each 30 constituencies. The enactment is facing the electorate with respective affirmative factors this time,” helium said.
Asked whether the yatra volition screen sitting seats of confederation spouse and Principal Opposition DMK, helium said, “We volition screen each 23 constituencies successful Puducherry. We person not reached the predetermination stage. We are not going present into spot arithmetic oregon enactment relation successful the alliance. It volition beryllium decided successful owed people and based connected a imaginable candidate’s winnability.”
The Union Territory has 30 Assembly constituencies dispersed crossed 4 regions Puducherry (23), Karaikal (5), Mahe (1) and Yanam (1). In the 2021 polls, the enactment contested 14 retired of the 15 it was allotted successful the confederation and won 2 seats. The Congress did not contention the Yanam spot arsenic portion of its electoral strategy then. The DMK, which contested for 13 seats, went connected to triumph 6 seats and became the main Opposition enactment successful the Assembly. The CPI and VCK contested 1 spot each.
