Pondy BJP to urge Election Commission to sack 8 MLAs

Speaking to reporters here, BJP's local unit President V Saminathan alleged that eight MLAs (six of Congress and two of DMK) were now simultaneously holding posts of chairmen of the Puducherry government sponsored statutory bodies. A Congress legislator has also been functioning as Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister. 

“We will urge the Election Commission through a petition to disqualify all these eight legislators as they are holding offices of profit,” Saminathan said. He pointed out that the MLAs were in the same situation as that of the now disqualified 20 AAP legislators of the Delhi Assembly.