Congress leads in sole Puducherry LS seat

Puducherry, May 23: The Congress on Thursday established a solid lead over rival AINRC candidate in the sole Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency.

The Congress candidate Ve. Vaithilingam had polled over 1.69 lakh votes while his nearest rival, AINRC's Narayanasamy Kesavan, got over 89,400 votes, Election Commission officials said.