<p>The BJP plans to unleash a high-voltage campaign in Puducherry with a battery of central leaders as it seeks to wrest power in the union territory in the coming assembly elections.</p>.<p>The party in-charge for <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/puducherry" target="_blank">Puducherry</a> Nirmal Kumar Surana said the BJP would field about ten star campaigners in the UT, where elections to the 30-member assembly would be held on April six.</p>.<p>They include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, and Union Ministers Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and Smriti Irani, he told PTI here. Modi and Shah have already launched the party's campaign in the tiny union territory.</p>.<p>Surana, who is Vice-President of Karnataka unit of BJP, said discussions were underway with the All India NR Congress (AINRC) and AIADMK on seat-sharing for the elections and it would be finalised as soon as possible.</p>.<p>Asked if the NDA plans to declare its Chief Ministerial candidate, he said: "All the matters are getting discussed".</p>.<p>Surana said Puducherry Assembly Speaker V P Sivakolundhu, who quit on Sunday citing health reasons, is in touch with the BJP and would decide on joining the party in a day or two.</p>.<p>Sivakolundhu won from the Lawspet constituency in the 2016 assembly elections on a Congress ticket. His brother V P Ramalingam joined the BJP in Karaikal in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his campaign visit on Sunday.</p>.<p>"He (Sivakolundhu) wants his brother (Ramalingam) to contest from his constituency (Lawspet)", Surana said.</p>.<p>On how many seats the NDA hoped to win in Puducherry, he claimed that according to his assessment the Congress would not be able to win even a single seat. Puducherry is now under President's rule after the Congress government headed by V Narayanasamy fell on February 22 on being reduced to a minority following a spate of resignation of Congress MLAs and a DMK legislator.</p>
<p>The BJP plans to unleash a high-voltage campaign in Puducherry with a battery of central leaders as it seeks to wrest power in the union territory in the coming assembly elections.</p>.<p>The party in-charge for <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/puducherry" target="_blank">Puducherry</a> Nirmal Kumar Surana said the BJP would field about ten star campaigners in the UT, where elections to the 30-member assembly would be held on April six.</p>.<p>They include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, and Union Ministers Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and Smriti Irani, he told PTI here. Modi and Shah have already launched the party's campaign in the tiny union territory.</p>.<p>Surana, who is Vice-President of Karnataka unit of BJP, said discussions were underway with the All India NR Congress (AINRC) and AIADMK on seat-sharing for the elections and it would be finalised as soon as possible.</p>.<p>Asked if the NDA plans to declare its Chief Ministerial candidate, he said: "All the matters are getting discussed".</p>.<p>Surana said Puducherry Assembly Speaker V P Sivakolundhu, who quit on Sunday citing health reasons, is in touch with the BJP and would decide on joining the party in a day or two.</p>.<p>Sivakolundhu won from the Lawspet constituency in the 2016 assembly elections on a Congress ticket. His brother V P Ramalingam joined the BJP in Karaikal in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his campaign visit on Sunday.</p>.<p>"He (Sivakolundhu) wants his brother (Ramalingam) to contest from his constituency (Lawspet)", Surana said.</p>.<p>On how many seats the NDA hoped to win in Puducherry, he claimed that according to his assessment the Congress would not be able to win even a single seat. Puducherry is now under President's rule after the Congress government headed by V Narayanasamy fell on February 22 on being reduced to a minority following a spate of resignation of Congress MLAs and a DMK legislator.</p>