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Congress Sandesh - September, 2002 NEW DELHI : On a day when the Tamil Maanila Congress and the Puducherry Makkal Congress merged with the Party, the Congress also welcomed back into its fold the former Tripura Chief Minister, Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, and the former Union Minister, Aslam Sher Khan, on 14 August, 2002. The Congress Party is fully in concurrence with the orders of the Supreme Court that candidates must disclose all relevant information called for, particularly regarding convictions and charges for offences, assets and bank balances, and liabilities and overdues. The Congress Party is in disagreement only with the directions of the Election Commission vesting Returning Officers with the powers to investigate the authenticity of the information given and to reject nomination papers on grounds of incomplete or false information. www.congresssandesh.com /september-2002/report4.html

Puducherry Makkal Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Puducherry Makkal Congress (Pondicherry Popular Congress) was a political party in the Indian union territory Pondicherry. PMC was formed as a splinter group of Tamil Maanila Congress. However, P. Kannan left Congress after that Democratic Progressive Alliance had allotted the Pondicherry seat till Pattali Makkal Katchi ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puducherry_Makkal_Congress

The Pondicherry picture The Congress(I) and the TMC also steered clear of the alliance among the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the Puducherry Makkal Congress, the BJP and the Dalit Panthers. The DMK won seven, the Puducherry Makkal Congress headed by P. Kannan four and the BJP one. The 11 Congress MLAs and Pradesh Congress(I) Committee members, who met on May 18, failed to choose the Chief Minister as there was an intense tussle between the former Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam and incumbent Tourism Minister N. Rangaswamy. www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1811/18110180.htm

Congress Sandesh - August, 2002 Formalising the merger of the Puducherry Makkal Congress with the Congress, she said that never before the country had such a "heartless" government at the Centre. Let’s Bring Back Kamaraj Rule in TN Congress President Sonia Gandhi waving to the crowd at a meeting on 14 Aug. in Madurai where the Congress and the TMC merger was announced. All the Congress leaders who addressed the rally, including the AICC, secretary, Ramesh Chennithala, the TNCC president, E.V.K.S. Elangovan, and Mr. www.congresssandesh.com /august-2002/report3.html

South Asian Media Net Congress (I) withdrew their support in less than a year, hoping to gain power with the support of various United Front constituent groups, and Inder Kumar Gujral became the next Janata Dal Prime Minister. Until recently, the Congress Party was the main opposition party at the Center (i.e., the central or federal government) and has also formed the government in a majority of Indian states. During this period there were two camps in the Congress: the Garam Dal, or Extremists (literally "hot faction"), and the Naram Dal, or Moderates (literally "soft faction");depending on their attitude towards the British. www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm

Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> NDA govt insensitive to needs of states: Sonia "After independence, we have never seen such a government which is insensitive and indifferent to the needs of states," she told a massive rally, organised to mark the formal merger of Puducherry Makkal Congress (PMC), led by former minister and Speaker, P Kannan, with the Congress. Pondicherry: Congress president, Sonia Gandhi on August 14 launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre charging it with being "insensitive and indifferent" to the needs of states. The Congress party would wage a battle against the "corrupt and casteist" government both inside and outside Parliament, she said. news.indiainfo.com /2002/08/14/14sonia2.html

Excelsior... Nation Puducherry Makkal Congress president K Lakshminarayanan proposed the name of Mr Sivakumar, while BJP state president A M Krishnamurthy seconded it, he told newspersons. DMK convener R V Jankiraman, said here that the decision to field Mr Sivakumar, a former Speaker, as the NDA candidate was taken this morning at a meeting of the legislators of the alliance. Mr Jankiraman, a former Chief Minister, said the legislators were not given their due respect during the 13-month tenure of the Congress party. www.dailyexcelsior.com /01june09/national.htm

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation Six workers of the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) sustained injuries when they were attacked by a gang, alleged to be comprising workers of the Puducherry Makkal Congress, at Ariyurpet, near here, last night. Congress president Sonia Gandhi today called on voters in Kerala to vote in favour of the United Democratic Front (UDF) candidates in the May 10 poll to enable the UDF to implement its agenda for a prospective state. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on a whistle stop campaign tour, addressed a rally here this afternoon exhorting the people to extend support to the UDF for regaining the prestige of Kerala and putting the state back on the development map of the country. www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010503/nation.htm

TMC backs govt in Pondy- The Times of India congress has 11 members while the four-member puducherry makkal congress and three-member aiadmk have already announced that they will support the ministry. pondicherry: the two-member tamil maanila congress in the pondicherry assembly on friday extended "unconditional" support to the congress government in the union territory. timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-1955488663,prtpage-1.cms

GN Online: Karunanidhi gives NDA the jitters Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday said after meeting Congress stalwarts from Pondicherry that the Congress would not work with the PMK and that the party should be given maximum number of seats. The situation in Pondicherry is a pointer to the relationship between Jayalalitha and Ramadoss on one side and the Congress and the TMC on the other. There may be a Congress revolt if Sonia forces the party to accept Jayalalitha's (and Ramadoss') ultimatum that they accept the Jayalalitha line in two days or leave the alliance. www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=14151

rediff.com: Sonia calls upon ex-Congressmen to return Earlier, addressing a function in Pondicherry where the Puducherry Makkal Congress, a breakaway group of the TMC led by P Kannan, merged with the parent party, Gandhi said the Centre was 'indifferent and insensible' and had 'no heart' to extend special grants to drought-affected states. Stating that the Congress would raise its voice in Parliament for the rights of Pondicherry, she called upon the people to fight against the 'corrupt' and 'heartless' Centre. Gandhi, who named TMC president G K Vasan as an All India Congress Committee secretary, recalled how Tamil Nadu was always among the 'top three' states in the country when Congress leader K Kamaraj was the chief minister. www.indiaabroad.com /news/2002/aug/14tn.htm

The Hindu : Fight between two key Congress contenders His task, however, is unlikely to be easy as the key contenders are two heavyweights in Pondicherry politics - V. Narayanasamy, local Congress president, and P. Kannan, who merged his regional outfit, the Puducherry Makkal Congress with the parent Congress a year ago. With an intense tussle on among key Congress leaders in Pondicherry for the lone Rajya Sabha seat, the AICC secretary, Satyajit Gaekwad, is likely to visit the Union Territory on September 11 to choose the candidate. In the 30-member legislature, the Congress, which won only 11 seats in the 2001 Assembly elections, increased its strength by another 4 with the merger of the Makkal Congress. www.hinduonnet.com /2003/09/09/stories/2003090905100400.htm

PONDICHERRY In 1946, the French India Congress was formed with the objective of integrating the French possessions with India. The new municipal assembly overwhelmingly voted for its merger with the Indian Union and the Government of India took control of Chandernagore on June 9, 1952. In August that year the Congress Karmaparishad won 22 of the 24 seats. www.iperfull.com /Pondicherry

&prd=th& Majumdar left the Congress in 1999 and was one of the founders of the Trinamool Congress, he left Mamata Banerjee's party some time ago. At a press conference where their return to the Congress was formally announced, the two leaders articulated their faith in the leadership of Ms. Khan — twice elected from the Betul Parliamentary constituency in Madhya Pradesh on the Congress ticket and a member of the former Prime Minister, Narasimha Rao's Council of Ministers — left the Congress in 1997 to join the BJP. www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2002081502131300.htm&date=2002/08/15/&prd=th&

Excelsior... Nation Talking to newspersons, Puducherry Makkal Congress president K Lakshminarayana, MLA, urged the administration to take immediatesteps to reinstate the employees, failing which the NDA would stageagitations. The internal wranglings in the Tripura Congress over the AICC’s decision to retain Mr Birjit Sinha as the state party chief have come to the fore with 37 TPCC members threatening to resign. The liberal and secular character of the Indian education is being eroded which, not in consonance with the...... www.dailyexcelsior.com /01aug05/national.htm

My-India.net: Premier Indian News Portal Pondicherry, Oct 31: The Congress here today received a shot in the arm when the Puducherry Makkal Congress (PMC), which has four members in the 30-member Pondicherry Assembly, decided to merge with it. PMC founder P Kannan told reporters after a meeting of the party’s general council that the merger was “unconditional”. All the four PMC MLAs - K Lakshminarayanan, A Elumalai, P Rajavelu and R Radhakrishnan — and Krishna Rao were present at the press conference. www.my-india.net /n/a/arc10-2001.shtml

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation While the Congress captured a two-third of the seats in the elections, the BJP was restricted to only a one-third, Dr Togadiya said, adding that the “hot issue of Hindutva” was one of the main reasons for the party’s defeat “despite its good governance in the state”. Congress leaders Manmohan Singh, Oscar Fernandes, Ghulam Nabi Azad and members of the diplomatic corps were present on the occasion. In reply to a question, he said the VHP had supported any party which favoured the Ram mandir and other related issues, and that it could “even support the Congress” if its President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, announced her party support to the construction of the temple and abolition of Article 370. www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20001003/nation.htm

Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> TN, Pondy follow similar poll battle lines AIADMK chief Jayaram Jayalalitha is learnt to have promised the PMK 13 constituencies. The delay is attributed to the Congress Party leadership's reluctance to give up power in Pondicherry, where it holds nine seats, forming the largest chunk of legislators in the Assembly. The PMK has for the last two years been aggressively campaigning among the Vanniya and Dalit communities of Pondicherry and its leader, R Ramadoss, claims to be in so strong a position that his party is capable of winning at least 20 of the 30 seats. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/04/05/05pondy.html

Indiainfo - News - India Jaipur: Rama Pilot, the widow of Congress leader Rajesh Pilot, Tuesday won the Dausa Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Rohitashav Kumar by a margin of 65,264 votes, chief electoral officer Surendra Kumar said. Calcutta: Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has deferred till Friday a decision on whether or not to withdraw her resignation from the Federal Cabinet of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress' Kerala unit, which met here for the first time after putting up an impressive performance in the just concluded local bodies election, decided that it would have no alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the elections for mayors and presidents of civic bodies. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/10/03/india-index.html

A merger mela Earlier, in Pondicherry, the Puducherry Makkal Congress, led by P. Kannan, merged with the Congress(I) in her presence. A MASSIVE crowd that exceeded all expectations and pleased Congress(I) president Sonia Gandhi immensely watched the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) reunite with the Indian National Congress on August 14 at a venue christened "Moopanar Thidal" on the outskirts of Madurai. A Congress leader said that after the merger the party's vote share in Tamil Nadu stood at around 22 per cent. www.flonnet.com /fl1918/19180330.htm

The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Pondicherry News : Kannan launches Puducherry Munnetra Congress Kannan said he had formed the new party as the Congress leadership had ignored the "unwritten" agreement when his Puducherry Makkal Congress merged with the Congress party. PONDICHERRY: Suspended Congress leader and former Minister P Kannan, on Wednesday formally launched his political party, Puducherry Munnetra Congress. Kannan has retained the Congress flag for the new party and the only difference is that the hand symbol will be replaced by Mr. www.hinduonnet.com /2005/05/12/stories/2005051213610600.htm

The Hindu : Political scene in Pondy 'hazy' The decision of the Puducherry Makkal Congress, led by former Minister, Mr. The Janata Dal, CPI and the PMK have a member each, while the DMK has a strength of 10 and the Puducherry Makkal Congress has three. Now that the Congress and TMK have decided to delink Pondicherry from the alliance negotiations with the AIADMK, they might have to float a separate group, along with the Left parties. www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/03/12/stories/04122237.htm

List of political parties in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Akhil Bharatiya Congress Dal (Ambedkar) ("All India Congress Party (Ambedkar)") Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress ("All India Democratic Congress") Rashtriya Rajdhani Congress Delhi ("National Capital Congress Delhi") en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_India

Notice to C.M.Jayalalitha-Karate Thiagarajan... The formal merger of the Puducherry Makkal Congress, floated by P Kannan who came out of the TMC during the Assembly polls last year, would be declared by AICC president Sonia Gandhi when she visits the Union Territory on August 1. Others to whom notices were issued included SIT chief W I Dawaram and the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Stating this here, Education and Tourism Minister K Lakshminarayanan told reporters here that Sonia’s visit was confirmed yesterday by AICC spokesman Jaipal Reddy. raseenalah.tripod.com /karaikal/news/today7.html

Welcome to Sentinel In neighbouring Union Territory of Pondicherry, the Puducherry Makkal Congress (PMC), led by former minister P Kannan, also merged with the Congress. The body of one boy was recovered today, irrigation and flood control minister N Mangi Singh said. Sources said that Lohia had lodged an FIR at the Tezpur police station yesterday against Basumatary who crossed "official" dignity over the issue of setting up of a Community Information Centre at the latter’s constituency. www.sentinelassam.com /sentinel_en/archives/aug1502/briefs.htm

Todays News Meanwhile, Puducherry Makkal Congress (PMC) in the neighbouring state of Pondicherry also united with Congress. While Moopanar himself was a strong votary of merger, his death appears to have hastened the process apparently because of the difficulties faced by TMC under his son Vasan, a political novice, in running a party. MADURAI,AUGUST 15: Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) led by G K Vasan in Tamil Nadu, merged with Congress after a gap of six years in the presence of Sonia Gandhi. www.hindunet.org /News/default.php?dtstr=20020815&Formsearchresults_Page=14

BJP strikes seat sharing deal with Jaya- The Economic Times Earlier, P Kannan, a prominent Vaniyar leader and former home minister, who merged his Puducherry Makkal Congress party with the Congress in ’02 in the presence of Sonia Gandhi, resigned from the party. The AIADMK leader agreed to allocate six of the 39 Lok Sabha seats to the saffron party — the same as it got to contest as partner of the DMK in the last election — after a meeting with BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai. The Congress has touted its successful zeroing in on the DMK to proclaim that it has caught up with the BJP in picking allies. economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/450643.cms

The Hindu : Thursday, August 15, 2002 The AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, today said the merger of the Puducherry Makkal Congress with the Congress was a good augury for the resurgence of her party. After the rather high-profile Delhi trip to petition the party high command against the Antony Government, the Karunakaran group in the State Congress is now adopting a wait-and-watch approach for a positive... With this merger, the unity of the Congress family had been... www.thehindu.com /2002/08/15/04hdline.htm

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation A decision regarding this was purely an internal matter of the Congress and the PMC would support whomsoever the party (Congress) nominates for the Chief Minister’s post, he added. Stating that the tie-up with the NDA was only an electoral alliance, he said the PMC had decided to support the Congress in the wake of the changed political scenario in Pondicherry. The Congress, which had yesterday merely questioned the promulgation of the ordinance on the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, 2001, said today that it would oppose it “tooth and nail”. www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011019/nation.htm

national.htm Kannan announced that his new outfit has been christened Puducherry Makkal Congress (Pondicherry People’s Congress). Samajwadi Party and BSP leaders claim that already two of the BJP’s major allies — the Loktantrik Congress and the Jantantrik Bahujan Samaj Party — are in touch with them to explore possibilities of an alternative alliance in case the Gupta government is toppled. It is the people’s verdict,” the Trinamul Congress leader said. www.telegraphindia.com /1000921/national.htm

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