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Speaking from the presumption of being the main Opposition enactment successful Puducherry’s Legislative Assembly, DMK leaders portion addressing a grooming programme for Booth Level Agents made a clarion telephone to enactment workers to guarantee the triumph of DMK candidates successful each 30 Assembly constituencies for bringing a Dravidian exemplary of authorities successful the Union Territory.
“We were successful powerfulness successful Puducherry successful the past. The caller governments person failed to marque the territory a developed region. Statehood is simply a indispensable to guarantee maturation and it tin beryllium achieved lone by our enactment similar however the rights of the radical of Tamil Nadu are protected by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin. We should triumph each 30 seats successful the Union Territory to guarantee the Dravidian exemplary of governance successful Puducherry,” said S. Jagathrakshakan, MP and coordinator for party’s Udanpirappe Vaa programme successful Puducherry.
The region’s presumption arsenic a Union Territory has made it lag successful improvement due to the fact that the elected authorities was rendered powerless owing to the power exerted implicit the medication by the Centre. The concern indispensable alteration to enrich the elected authorities with powerfulness to instrumentality decisions connected its own, helium said.
“We lone tin get Statehood for Puducherry. The DMK has proved its mettle to govern contempt having an unfriendly authorities astatine the Centre. Our Chief Minister fights for the rights of radical done ineligible means and successful the aforesaid way, our enactment volition combat for Puducherry’s Statehood successful courts. For that, the Union Territory needs a DMK government,” helium said.
Later successful an enactment with reporters, Tamil Nadu Minister for Industries T. R. B. Raja said the radical of Puducherry wished to spot the functioning of a Dravidian exemplary of authorities successful the Union Territory aft witnessing the strides Tamil Nadu has made successful the past 4 years. “People privation to person a Dravidian exemplary of authorities aft seeing the governance provided by Mr. Stalin. There volition beryllium a spillover effect successful Puducherry,” helium said.
DMK, an state of Congress, past formed a authorities successful Puducherry astir 25 years ago. After that, the Dravidian enactment had lone played a 2nd fiddle to the Congress successful each the polls. The party’s fortunes changed successful the past elections, erstwhile it won 6 of the 13 seats it contested successful confederation with the Congress, the CPI and the VCK. The Congress could negociate to unafraid lone 2 seats of the 14 it contested successful the 2021 elections.
After the electoral result of 2021, the DMK enactment had been making nationalist comments of taking implicit the enactment of INDIA bloc successful Puducherry. Opposition person and DMK convenor R. Siva had made precise captious remarks connected the Congress enactment aft it fared severely successful the Assembly elections successful Maharashtra and Haryana.
“In the past 2 decades, we person been asking for much Assembly seats but this clip we volition beryllium seeking a ascendant relation from our contiguous spot successful the Assembly. We person already conveyed to our leaders successful Tamil Nadu our privation to contention successful much seats successful 2026 polls,” said a elder enactment functionary.
