Five Congress ‘rebel’ candidates get audience with Rahul Gandhi

While the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee was arguing against the six enactment candidates who are successful fray successful constituencies allocated to the DMK and the VCK successful the INDIA bloc, enactment elder person Rahul Gandhi connected Monday gave the ‘rebel’ candidates assemblage and posed for photographs with them astatine the airdrome erstwhile helium was leaving aft addressing a nationalist gathering arsenic portion of the Congress run for the April 9 polls successful the Union Territory.

During the Congress-DMK standoff implicit sharing of seats for the elections, respective Congress members had jumped into the canvass fray by filing papers connected the past time of submission of nominations connected March 23. As galore arsenic 23 Congress members aft collecting enactment authorisation forms from the PPCC enactment had filed information papers successful their preferred constituencies.