Puducherry Assembly Elections 2021: Former Congress MLA Lakshminarayanan switches allegiance to AINRC

Lakshminarayanan quit Congress and also the MLA post on February 21.

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Puducherry: Former Congress legislator K Lakshminarayanan joined the AINRC in the presence of party founder N Rangasamy here on Wednesday. 

Lakshminarayanan represented the Raj Bhavan constituency in the territorial Assembly on a Congress ticket. 

He however quit the Congress and also the MLA post on February 21, a day ahead of the trust vote in the territorial assembly.

There was a spate of resignations by the then ruling Congress legislators and also by an MLA belonging to the DMK K Venkatesan, culminating in the fall of Narayanasamy led Congress government at the fag end of its tenure on February 22. The Union Territory goes to assembly polls on April 6 to elect 30 MLAs.