Puducherry election: Lok Sabha MP Vaithilingam files nomination for Assembly polls, Congress workers protest outside his home

Police were summoned to prevent the Congress workers from barging into the residence of Puducherry Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee chief V. Vaithilingam at Candappamudaliar Street as a mark of protest against alleged discrepancies in ticket distribution for the Assembly polls in Puducherry on Monday.

The workers raised slogans against Mr. Vaithilingam for denying party ticket to former Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy from Nellithope constituency. Congress workers from Nettapakkam also protested in front of his house for ignoring the claims of a party functionary Harikrishnan to contest from the constituency. 

Congress workers protesting in front of Vaithilingam’s residence on Monday.

They also tried to block his car as he was trying to move out of the house to file nomination papers. As the party workers became unruly and tried to barge into Mr. Vaithilingam’s residence, the police were summoned to remove the Congress functionaries from the vicinity.

Congress workers protesting in front of Vaithilingam’s residence on Monday.