At last, Puducherry has a government. It took nearly a month but finally, after extensive negotiations aided by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Nirmal Surana and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who helped craft strategies for the party’s election campaign, a council of ministers is in place. The Chief Minister N Rangasamy-led All India NR Congress (AINRC) is in command in a coalition in which the BJP is calling the shots.
There are several reasons why this government is so important. First, in the last round of Assembly elections, the BJP was able to conquer new frontiers like West Bengal, where it went up
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