Cong offers bypoll seat to DMK to cement ties

CHENNAI: The Congress government in Puducherry has offered the upcoming bypoll seat to its ally, the DMK, to cement the ties between the parties at the national level. The Thattanchavady seat in the UT has fallen vacant, following the conviction of the opposition NR Congress legislator Ashok Anand by a CBI court in a disproportionate assets case. He was convicted and sentenced along with his father Anandane, a retired PWD chief engineer, on October 30.