Puducherry Election 2021 Dates: Polls To Be Held In Union Territory On April 6; Full Schedule Here

Puducherry Assembly Election 2021 Full Schedule Announced: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced the poll schedule for assembly polls in the Union Territory of Puducherry.

Puducherry Assembly Election 2021 Full Schedule Announced | Image Courtesy: PTI

Puducherry Assembly Election 2021 Full Schedule Announced: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced the poll schedule for assembly polls in the Union Territory of Puducherry. Puducherry has a 33-member assembly (30 elected and 3 nominated by the centre). Currently, there is no government instituted in the Puducherry Assembly as the Congress government of the UT failed to prove its majority in the house.

POLL SCHEDULE

Polling Date: April 6, 2021

Counting of Votes and Result: May 2nd, 2021 

The BJP is trying to make inroads in the Union Territory. Three out of the five resigned Congress MLA’s have joined the BJP and the party is looking to consolidate its power in the south as well. Alliance with NR Congress is still not confirmed news. BJP will contest the elections in alliance with the AIADMK.

The Congress on the other hand will yet again go in the election under the leadership of V Narayanasamy. They will be in alliance with the DMK. The seat-sharing formula is not yet known.

The 2016 Assembly election was a comfortable victory for the Congress-DMK alliance as Congress won 15 and DMK two seats against the eight, four and one seat won by NR Congress, AIADMK and BJP respectively.