Puducherry Congress MLAs have been so impressed with Rahul Gandhi’s antics that they responded by toppling their authorities

It was solely final Wednesday that Rahul Gandhi landed in Puducherry to marketing campaign for the Congress get together forward of the state’s elections in April-May this yr. While on his go to to the state, Rahul Gandhi had taken to play a idiot, an ignoramus and even a tele-evangelist sort of an individual, because it now seems, lower than per week after the Gandhi scion’s go to to Puducherry, the Congress authorities has misplaced its majority and the Chief Minister and his cabinet have tendered their resignations. Two MLAs had give up the Congress in January, and two extra previous to Gandhi’s go to final week.Up till Rahul Gandhi’s go to to Puducherry, the Narayansamy authorities was already clutching on to final straws. However, on Sunday, two extra Congress MLAs resigned, spelling a loss of life knell for the state authorities’s hopes of one way or the other conserving their declare to the throne afloat. Prior to the resignation of the 2 MLAs on Sunday, the Congress hoped to sail by way of the belief vote with assist from the AIADMK. However, the 2 resignations decreased the federal government’s energy to 12 – two in need of the bulk mark wanted to stay in energy.The Congress-DMK ruling alliance had the assist of 12 MLAs (together with an Independent) within the House whose efficient energy is now 26, whereas the opposition alliance has 14 MLAs. After the resignation of 4 MLAs, pushing V Narayanaswamy’s authorities right into a minority, the opposition had demanded a flooring take a look at, which the Congress misplaced spectacularly earlier right this moment. In the Assembly right this moment, Narayanasamy accused the opposition of attempting to topple the federal government. “Former LG Kiran Bedi and Central Government colluded with the Opposition and tried to topple the government. It is clear that the people of Puducherry trust us. This is a government elected by the people,” he stated.Interestingly, the Congress alliance, comprising of 12 MLAs staged a walkout from the Puducherry meeting even earlier than the movement of confidence was taken up for vote. “The Speaker’s ruling is incorrect. BJP govt at the Centre, NR Congress & AIADMK have succeeded in dislodging our govt by using voting power used by 3 nominated members. This is murder of democracy. The people of Puducherry and this country will teach them a lesson,” V Narayanasamy stated after tendering his resignation.Read extra: Rahul’s Puducherry present is a success the place he performs a idiot, an ignoramus and even a tele-evangelist sort of personLast week, Rahul Gandhi had made a clown out of himself in Puducherry. One would have thought {that a} bulk of the Gandhi scion’s focus could be on resolving the political disaster within the state. However, the man-child slightly took to turning his two-day go to right into a cringe fest of unprecedented magnitude. From behaving like a tv evangelist earlier than who devotees go maniacal, to speaking nonsense with the fishermen – Rahul Gandhi did all of it.Perhaps as a consequence of the identical disastrous go to, Narayanaswamy (who final week had twisted a fisherwoman’s criticism earlier than Rahul Gandhi to make it sound like she was praising the chief minister) was unable to avoid wasting the Congress authorities within the state.