Rise & fall of Congress
Here’s a glance at how Puducherry voted in the 2016 Assembly polls. The Congress had formed the government after bagging 15 of the 30 seats
The legislators who jumped party lines
Here’s a list of all the MLAs who quit Congress to join other parties (except one), resulting in the L-G calling for a floor test and the govt’s ultimate fall
Disqualified
N Dhanavelu, the then Bahour MLA was removed from the Congress citing ‘anti-party’ activities, resulting in him getting disqualified from the Assembly
The statehood debate
Dinesh Gundu Rao, secretary of the All India Congress Committee, said that Statehood has remained the policy of the Congress, DMK and NR Congress. N Rangasamy, president of the NR Congress, had even stated that they will boycott elections if Statehood was not granted
