Puducherry, March 17 -- Close on the heels of the Congress party urging the Election Commission to hold polling in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu together on the same date, the DMK also wrote to the CEC C Gyanesh Kunar in this regard on Tuesday.
In a letter to the CEC, State DMK Convener R Siva urged him to align the Puducherry Assembly election with the polling date of Tamil Nadu, i.e., 23 April 2026.
He said while,the polling date for Puducherry is 9th April,Tamil Nadu will go to polls only on 23rd April.This deviation has come as an unexpected development for the people of both Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Siva said it is pertinent to note that, historically, general elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have largely been conducted on the s...