Puducherry, March 17 -- Observing that polling in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu on different dates will invite law and order problems, Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee President and Lok Sabha member V Vaithilingam urged Chief Election Commissioner C Gyanesh Kumarto take immediate steps to hold polling in both the states on the same day.
In a letter to the CEC, Vaithilingam said polling in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, two adjoining states, on different dates, is unimaginable.
Till now almost all the general elections were held on the same date in both Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, he said and wondered why the Election Commission was in a haste consider that the tenure of the Puducherry assembly ends only on June 15.
He also pointed out that o...