Rarely does the politics of Tamil Nadu play out in the tiny Union territory of Pondicherry. The Congress or its offspring, the NR Congress, calls the shots in this former French colony with just about 20 lakh voters바카라”smaller than many municipalities in Tamil Nadu.
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The BJP바카라™s first political move here was to appoint Kiran Bedi as Lt. Governor, who remained in a constant state of war with Congress chief minister V. Narayanasamy. Finally, the BJP delivered the coup de grace바카라”triggering a spate of walk-outs from the precariously positioned Congress government, leading to its resignation and imposition of President바카라™s rule.
The BJP had hoped that its nominee and defector-in-chief바카라”former PWD minister E. Namasivvayam바카라”could be projected as the CM candidate. But it did not expect its ally N. RangaswÂamy바카라”the two-time CM who heads the NR Congress바카라”to object. After RanÂÂgÂÂaswamy decided to strike out on his own, the BJP changed tune and agreed to him being the CM candidate.
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With the Congress on the retreat the BJP hopes that the NDA, thanks to Rangaswamy바카라™s popularity, would capture power in the UT바카라”the first time the BJP would be part of a government here. Its ambition of having a BJP CM for Pondicherry can wait. 바카라śPondicherry could be the rehearsal before we make a bolder bid at power in Tamil Nadu,바카라ť says a BJP leader in Tamil Nadu.Â
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