Shri N.Rangasamy Ji took oath as Puducherry CM

Recently, Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has congratulated Shri N.Rangasamy Ji on taking an oath as Puducherry CM.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

Puducherry is a Union Territory of India rather than a state, which implies that governance and administration fall directly under federal authority.

However, Puducherry is one of the three union territories in India (the other being National Capital Territory of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir) that is entitled by a special constitutional amendment to have an elected legislative assembly and a cabinet of ministers, thereby conveying partial statehood.

The Pondicherry Representative Assembly was converted into the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry on 1 July 1963 as per Section 54(3) of The Union Territories Act, 1963.

The elections for the Puducherry Vidhan Sabha are held since 1964.