N Rangasamy News

Pucucherry Chief Minister Rangasamy remains tight-lipped even as legislators have come out against his government. 

The swearing in of other ministers, including those from BJP will take place in the next few days.

DMK chief MK Stalin on Friday (May 7) took oath as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister along with 33 ministers. The swearing-in ceremony took place at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. 

AINRC Chief N Rangasamy will be Sworn in as Chief Minister of Union Territory of Puducherry at a brief ceremony here on Friday.

NDA presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday met Puducherry legislators and the lone Lok Sabha member from the Union Territory, who assured support for his candidature.

Election authorities here on Saturday found 366 nominations, including that of chief minister N Rangasamy, to be in order at the end of scrutiny of the papers filed by candidates contesting the May 16 Assembly polls in the Union Territory.

The ruling AINRC on Wednesday announced that it will contest the May 16 Assembly elections in the Union Territory on its own.

Seeking to put a lid on speculations, the AIADMK unit here on Sunday said it would not have any truck with the ruling AINRC for the May 16 assembly elections in the union territory.

Even as most political parties in this Union Territory have announced their strategy for the May 16 assembly polls, the ruling AINRC is keeping everyone guessing as it is yet to spell out its plans.

With hardly two months left for the assembly polls, political parties in the Union Territory of Puducherry are yet to firm up their electoral strategy and decide on whether to go it alone or form alliances.

The state government has set up over 43,000 booths across the state, including at primary health centres, for administering the vaccine drops to over 70 lakh children, an official release said.

 ICC General Secretary V Narayanasamy on Saturday alleged that territorial police failed to provide due security to party Vice president Rahul Gandhi during his visit to rain-hit villages here on December 8.

Heavy rains on Friday pounded Puducherry, putting a brake on rescue and relief work in the Union Territory that has been lashed by torrential rain during the last one month.

After a 13-hour lull, heavy showers resumed on Thursday in Puducherry where large areas have been inundated and over 400 houses damaged due to torrential rains.

Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Monday said there was no room for corruption or malpractices in filling vacant posts in government departments.