Puducherry MLAs on a week-long foreign trip
The Hindu
Puducherry legislators to visit Nepal on government invitation, led by Speaker R. Selvam, returning on March 7.
Most of the Puducherry legislators will be out of the country for a week as they are planning to visit Nepal from Sunday on the invitation of the country’s government. The delegation will be led by Speaker R. Selvam and Puducherry Ministers.
According to Mr. Selvam, the legislators have been invited by the Nepal government for visiting the Federal Parliament of Nepal.
Of the total 33 legislators — 30 elected and three nominated legislators — in the Puducherry Assembly, 22 MLAs are part of the delegation. Many of the legislators have left to New Delhi on Saturday morning itself to board the flight to Nepal from the national capital. The legislators are set to return to Puducherry on March 7, said a government source.
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