Narayanasamy to meet LtGov today to stake claim to form govt

May 30, 2016 08:28

Senior Congress leader V Narayanasamy, who was unanimously elected as the Congress legislature Party leader, would meet Lt Governor Kiran Bedi today to stake claim to become the chief minister of Puducherry.

Narayanasamy told reporters that he would meet Bedi at 10 am to hand over the letter staking claim to form the government.

Narayanasamy was elected leader of the 15-member CLP on Saturday. The Congress has the support of the two-member Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the 30-member assembly.

Earlier, he had called on DMK president M Karunanidhi at Chennai and obtained his party's letter of support for forming the government.

Narayanasamy, who did not contest the May 16 assembly polls in which Congress-DMK alliance secured a simple majority of 17 in the 30-member House, said Karunanidhi handed over the DMK's letter of support of its two MLAs to him during the meeting.

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