A three way contest is likely in the region between the Congress, the National Democratic Alliance and the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) is likely to take place for the lone Lok Sabha seat up for grabs here.
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For the Congress Pondicherry has been of fluctuating nature as it had won the 1996 elections but it wasn't so in the case of the following election. In 1999,M.O.H.Farooq regained the seat for the INC defeating his closest rival M Ramdoss of PMK by a margin of 24188 votes.