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Puducherry BJP legislator P.M.L. Kalyanasundaram has challenged erstwhile Chief Minister and Congress person V. Narayanasamy to sever ties with his party’s state Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for allegedly accepting funds done electoral enslaved way from lottery baron Santiago Martin’s institution successful the past.
Addressing a property league astatine the Legislative Assembly connected Friday (October 24, 2025), the BJP legislator said Mr. Narayanasamy had nary motivation authorization to inquire BJP enactment to initiate disciplinary enactment against BJP MLAs for accepting Deepavali gifts from businessman Jose Charles Martin, lad of Santiago Martin.
Mr. Narayanasamy had, astatine a property league connected Thursday, accused the BJP of propping up a forum launched by Mr. Jose arsenic the B-team of the BJP successful Puducherry for the 2026 Assembly polls. The Congress person had accused BJP Minister A. John Kumar and Mr. Kalyanasundaram of distributing Deepavali gifts bearing the representation of Mr. Jose.
“Mr. Jose is simply a taxation paying businessman. He has donated acquisition boxes, including saccharine boxes and crackers, adjacent refrigerators, to galore legislators, including those from Congress party. Some of the MLAs accepted his acquisition boxes and a fewer of them rejected them. I person besides received acquisition boxes and those were distributed to radical successful my Kalapet constituency,” helium said.
The civilization of exchanging acquisition boxes during Deepavali successful Puducherry was a signifier followed for a agelong time, helium said adding that determination was nary directive from the BJP enactment to the enactment MLAs not to subordinate with Mr. Jose.
“We person lone accepted gifts from the businessman for organisation to the people. However, the Congress’s state DMK has accepted crores from Mr. Jose’s begetter arsenic electoral bonds. I situation the erstwhile Chief Minister for a statement connected the issue. He should amusement guts to inquire Congress enactment to sever ties with DMK for accepting funds from the concern group. There is nary B-team for BJP successful Puducherry,” the legislator said.
