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The Congress connected Wednesday gave an denotation of its program to participate into a “friendly fight” with its confederation partners — the DMK, the CPI and the VCK — successful definite constituencies for the April 9 Assembly polls successful the Union Territory.
During a media enactment astatine the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee office, the All India Congress Committee’s authoritative spokesperson Dolly Sharma said a wide representation connected the candidates successful fray for the Assembly elections would look lone by Thursday. The Election Commission of India has acceptable March 26 (Thursday) arsenic the deadline for candidates to retreat their information papers successful Puducherry.
While answering a question astir candidates of confederation partners filing information papers from the aforesaid constituencies, Ms. Sharma said, “let america see, however galore radical volition instrumentality backmost their information papers by tomorrow. There is simply a affable combat successful a fewer seats”.
Asked whether the DMK has agreed for the affable contest, she said, “Yes, I don’t deliberation the DMK has issued immoderate connection regarding the affable fight. Our candidates person already started their campaign.”
When reporters pointed retired the objection of the Congress being the lone large enactment not to person released the candidates list, Ms. Sharma said, “whoever is going to combat the elections for the party, person filed their information papers.”
Meanwhile, the Communist Party of India has convened its State Council to sermon the standoff with the Congress successful the INDIA bloc connected sharing seats for the April 9 polls. With the INDIA bloc failing to scope immoderate agreement, the CPI secretary, A. M. Saleem, and erstwhile enactment legislator Nara Kalainathan had connected the past time of filing of nominations submitted papers for the Thattanchavady and Ozhukarai constituencies respectively.
Member of Parliament and PCC main V. Vaithilingam had besides filed information from the Thattanchavady constituency, portion the caller entrant to the Congress and sitting Independent MLA M. Sivasankar filed nominations from the Ozhukarai constituency. Another cardinal constituent of the INDIA bloc, the DMK has already allotted Ozhukarai to its ally, the VCK.
“We discussed successful item the spot sharing issues. The enactment has asked the Congress to marque it’s basal wide connected leaving 1 of the seats to the CPI earlier the deadline for withdrawal of information ends connected Thursday. Our nationalist leaders are besides successful interaction with the enactment of the Congress and the DMK. We are waiting for the Congress’ effect to denote our stand,” a CPI person told The Hindu.
The occupation wrong the confederation is lone increasing arsenic days beforehand for the elections with much Congress candidates launching door-to-door run successful constituencies already selected by the DMK for the Assembly polls.
A time aft Congress Minister M.O.H. F. Shahjahan launched his run from Kalapet wherever the DMK has fielded A. Senthil alias Ramesh, 2 much Congress nominees R. Kumaran and Mr. Sivasankar person started door-to-door run connected Wednesday giving beardown denotation of their determination not to retreat from the canvass process.
Mr. Kumaran has filed information papers from Raj Bhavan wherever the DMK has fielded Vignesh Kannan, lad of erstwhile Speaker P. Kannan. Mr. Sivasankar, a sitting Independent legislator, has filed information from Ozhukarai arsenic the Congress campaigner though the DMK has allotted the Ozhukarai spot to the VCK.
Organisational failure.
“The concern shows the organisational weakness of the party. We are not adjacent capable to merchandise the campaigner database adjacent aft the past time of filing of nominations. Even with the standoff implicit spot sharing with us, the DMK was capable to merchandise their database of candidates. When the PCC main itself is astatine the centre of contention connected spot sharing, whom bash we expect to attack for solutions. The precocious bid excessively has not intervened truthful far,” a elder Congress person told .
