'Could not fight big ghost of money power': Puducherry's lone woman MLA and minister resigns

Updated : Oct 11, 2023 18:54
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Puducherry's lone woman legislator and minister, S Chandira Priyanga, on Tuesday, tendered her resignation from the AINRC-BJP coalition cabinet, alleging politics of conspiracy and money power, besides facing casteism and gender bias. 

She said in her letter that although she entered the Assembly due to her popularity among the people in her constituency, she however realised it is not so easy to overcome "politics of conspiracy and I could not fight against the big ghost of money power".

She realised she "was subjected to casteism and gender bias." "I was also targeted continuously and found that I could not bear the politics of conspiracy and the big ghost of money power any longer beyond certain limits".

She was elected from the Neduncadu reserved constituency in Karaikal on an AINRC ticket for a successive term in the 2021 Assembly polls.

Chief Minister N Rangasamy, however, declined to comment on Priyanga's decision to resign.

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