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In a improvement that could substance speculation successful Puducherry’s governmental scenery up of the 2026 Assembly elections, actor-turned-politician and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay plans to marque a stopover successful the Union Territory (UT) connected October 11 to clasp a roadshow and a street-corner gathering successful the town, earlier heading to the neighbouring Cuddalore territory successful Tamil Nadu arsenic portion of his governmental circuit of the State.
The TVK has sought constabulary support to clasp a roadshow covering the engaged stretches of Ajantha Signal, S.V. Patel Salai, Anna Salai, Sonampalayam, and Marappalam Junction wrong the Puducherry municipality limits. The enactment has besides requested support to organise a expansive invited for the histrion astatine Kalapet and to clasp a street-corner gathering during the roadshow astatine Sonampalayam successful the Uppalam constituency.
“We person received a practice from TVK functionaries to clasp a roadshow and a gathering to code supporters connected October 11. We are gathering reports from assorted wings of the constabulary and authorities departments earlier granting permission,” a elder serviceman told The Hindu.
AINRC-BJP relations
Though Mr. Vijay has, truthful far, not announced immoderate determination regarding his introduction into the electoral authorities of the Union Territory, helium enjoys a long-standing instrumentality pursuing successful Puducherry, 1 that includes Chief Minister and All India N.R. Congress (AINRC) founder-president N. Rangasamy. Additionally, Puducherry is the location State of TVK’s wide caput N. Anand, popularly known arsenic Bussy Anand, a erstwhile legislator and AINRC subordinate who aboriginal joined the TVK.
Mr. Anand was elected to the Puducherry Assembly successful 2006 from the Bussy constituency (now Uppalam), contesting connected a summons from the now-defunct Puducherry Munnetra Congress, a enactment founded by precocious MP P. Kannan.
Mr. Rangasamy, who had ne'er hesitated successful expressing his admiration for the actor, had recently, portion extending day greetings to him, wished the histrion occurrence successful his electoral battle. Interestingly, a fewer functionaries of the TVK had besides met the Chief Minister 2 days agone to question support to clasp the roadshow and street-corner gathering successful Puducherry.
For immoderate clip now, determination has been speculation successful governmental circles of a imaginable realignment of the confederation involving the AINRC, aft reports emerged of Mr. Rangasamy having differences with his ruling ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Recently, BJP leaders, including UT successful complaint Nirmal Kumar Surana, had a gathering with the Chief Minister and AINRC leaders to benignant retired issues, aft Mr. Rangasamy skipped attending the bureau implicit definite administrative issues. The Chief Minister has been openly complaining astir a deficiency of “support” from officials to instrumentality the “agenda” of the government.
In the discourse of developments wrong the AINRC-BJP confederation and the caller outbursts by Independents backing the BJP successful the Assembly against the government, Mr. Vijay’s roadshow could beryllium to beryllium an absorbing signifier successful the UT’s governmental abstraction up of adjacent year’s elections. “It volition beryllium absorbing to spot his introduction into Puducherry, arsenic his ‘political enemy’ is not the ruling enactment successful the UT. He has stated that we [the BJP] are his ideological enemy. We volition hold and watch,“ said a BJP leader.
