Puducherry: After more than 40 days of suspense, the Puducherry chief minister N. Rangasamy handing over the list of probable ministers of the NDA to the Lieutenant Governor Tamilsai Soundararajan on Wednesday.

The induction of new Ministers into the Rangasamy headed cabinet would take place on June 27, as per reports. Earlier in the day, Rangasamy submitted the names of MLAs to be inducted in his cabinet to Soundararajan and it would now be a six-member Ministry with four from the AINRC, including the Chief Minister and two from the BJP.

The relationship between the chief minister and the BJP leadership soured after the saffron party nominated three of its leaders as legislators even as Rangasami was convalescing in a private hospital at Chennai for Covid-19 treatment. There were reports that the BJP was trying to garner the post of chief minister through back-door as three independents among the 6 elected also pledged their support to the BJP. The BJP has six elected legislators, 3 nominated legislators and with the support of three independents, the party could reach a tally of 12 with the AINRC having only 10.

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