Puducherry Assembly election: Issues within INDIA bloc being ironed out, says Congress leader

Acknowledging definite differences wrong the INDIA bloc implicit seat-sharing for the April 9 Assembly polls successful Puducherry, Karnataka Health Minister and elder Congress person Dinesh Gundu Rao connected Monday (March 30, 2026) said the issues successful the confederation are being ironed retired by the enactment leadership.

Addressing a property league astatine the enactment bureau successful Puducherry, helium said the INDIA bloc would travel to powerfulness successful the Union Territory (UT) due to the fact that the voters are “dissatisfied” with the AINRC-BJP government.

Asked whether the discord among the confederation partners of the INDIA bloc would interaction the electoral prospects of the parties, Mr. Rao said: “There were issues during the seat-sharing talks. As our prospects are bright, galore radical expressed enthusiasm to contest. Now, we are successful the battlefield. Our elder enactment is trying to benignant retired the problems,” helium said. 

In arsenic galore arsenic six Assembly constituencies, the candidates of the Congress and the DMK are contesting against each other. Similarly, determination are constituencies wherever the Congress, DMK, CPI, and CPI(M) – each portion of the aforesaid confederation – person fielded candidates.

Mr. Rao expressed assurance successful uncovering a solution to the problems arising retired of the nonstop face-off betwixt the partners of the INDIA bloc. “There are ways to woody with specified situations, and the Congress wide caput in-charge volition code those issues,” helium said. 

According to him, the AINRC-BJP authorities had failed to present connected each promises fixed to the voters. While the AINRC had promised to get Statehood for Puducherry, its ally, the BJP, had assured that it would unafraid the peculiar class presumption for the UT during the 2021 polls. However, some assurances lone stay connected paper. 

“Apart from their nonaccomplishment to fulfil predetermination promises, the five-year tenure of the AINRC-BJP saw respective scams, including the manufacture of fake medicines. The voters volition springiness a fitting reply to the misrule of the ruling party,” helium said.