Anbalagan said that he had already written to the Election Commission seeking its intervention to rescind the polls.
AIADMK in Puducherry on Wednesday, 17 April, alleged rampant distribution of money to voters by BJP and Congress in Puducherry to lure them ahead of the 19 April Lok Sabha poll. Secretary of AIADMK’s Puducherry unit A Anbalagan along with party candidate G Tamizhvendhan staged a sit-in protest before the District Election Officer seeking the rescinding of the poll.