Puducherry, April 6 -- Five of the six unofficial Congress candidates contesting the April 9 Puducherry Assembly elections met AICC Leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday, virtually sending shock waves among its key ally, DMK.
The five 'unofficial candidates' met Rahul Gandhi at the airport.
As the seat sharing was not decided between the Congress and the DMK and the issue kept dragging, several candidates have entered the poll fray even before the pact was signed.
Under the INDI Alliance, of the 30 assembly seats in the union Territory, the Congress is contesting in 16 constiuencies and allotted the remaining 14 seats to the DMK which in turn allotted a seat from its kitty to another ally, the VCK.
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