The Congress-led government in Puducherry lost the confidence vote in the Legislative Assembly on Monday. Assembly Speaker said announced that the Narayanasamy government could not prove its majority and adjourned the House sine die.
The ruling Congress-DMK alliance failed to prove majority as it has 11 MLAs in the 33-member Legislative Assembly. The opposition has 14 members. The Union Territory will go to polls in April-May later this year.
“MLAs should stay loyal to the party. MLAs who have resigned will not be able to face the people as people will call them opportunists,” Narayanasamy said in the Assembly.
Earlier on Sunday, two more ruling alliance’s MLAs resigned. They are Congress’ K Lakshminarayanan and DMK’s Venkatesan. Lakshminarayanan and Venkatesan submitted their resignation letters separately to Assembly Speaker VP Sivakolundhu at his residence.
Lakshminarayanan told reporters that the Narayanasamy government has lost majority. Four Congress MLAs, including ex-ministers A Namassivayam (now in BJP) and Malladi Krishna Rao, had quit, while another party legislator was earlier disqualified. Narayanasamy’s confidante A John Kumar has also resigned.
BJP had requested the assemble for floor test after the heavy loss suffered by MLAs despite the visit of Rahul Gandhi last week.
