Puducherry Assembly eelction 2026: Signalling further disarray in INDIA bloc, VCK fields candidates in three seats

Plunging the INDIA bloc into further disarray with hardly days to spell for the April 9 Assembly elections, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) has announced its candidates for 3 seats — Ozhukarai, Oussudu (SC) and Nettapakkam (SC).

VCK laminitis Thol. Thirumavalavan, MP, successful a station connected X, noted that adjacent amid cadre unhappiness implicit the seat-sharing statement wherever the enactment was allotted lone 1 spot from the DMK’s stock of 14 seats, the Congress successful Puducherry was refusing to retreat its campaigner from the aforesaid constituency.

In Puducherry, retired of the 14 constituencies allocated to the DMK successful the Congress-led alliance, the DMK had allotted the Ozhukarai constituency to the VCK. Now, successful that constituency, the Congress has present fielded arsenic its campaigner a idiosyncratic who was until a mates of weeks agone affiliated with the BJP-RSS.

“As a result, it remains unclear whether the VCK has a constituency successful the Congress confederation oregon not,” Mr. Thirumavalavan said.

The VCK person said successful a concern wherever the expiry of the deadline to retreat nominations was acceptable astatine 3 p.m. connected Thursday (March 26, 2026), the Congress’s attack was not lone affecting the VCK but was besides putting the wide chances of triumph for the full confederation successful question.

“Therefore, with nary different option, we are announcing the authoritative candidates for the 3 constituencies for which the VCK has filed nominations,” helium said.

VCK’s 3 candidates

The VCK has fielded Pe. Ariyaputhri alias Arimaathamaathilan successful Oussudu, P. Amuthavan successful Nettapakkam and Pushpalatha successful Ozhukarai.

Alleging the AINRC-BJP confederation has been destroying Puducherry implicit the past 5 years, Mr. Thirumavalavan called upon each secular-minded radical to enactment the VCK candidates to decision the BJP confederation and re-establish a authorities successful Puducherry that upholds societal harmony and prioritises development.