Post Puducherry, Cong. leaders call for rethink on candidates

The resignation of Congress lawmakers and the eventual collapse of the Puducherry government has triggered a debate among a section of the Congress leaders on the process of choosing party candidates. With Puducherry following the Madhya Pradesh (March, 2020) and Karnataka (July, 2019) model, in which elected lawmakers resigned from the Assembly to bring down the government and later joined the BJP, the Congress may have to rethink its candidate selection process for the upcoming Assembly elections in States like Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal.