India, May 4 -- As the counting for the 30-seat Puducherry Assembly is udnerway, senior DMK leader R. Siva is currently trailing from Puducherry's Villianur constituency by a margin of 1,970 votes against All India NR Congress's BV Ravicoumar, as per the latest ECI data.

Siva currently serves as the Leader of Opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly and represents the Villianur constituency. Track updates on Puducherry results

R. Siva was born in 1967 in Puducherry and entered politics through the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), gradually emerging as one of its prominent leaders in the Union Territory. His political career began in the mid-1990s when he was first elected to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly in 1996 from the ...