In about a year, the people of Puducherry would be voting in the election to their territorial assembly. Unfortunately, their small population would keep their peculiar Constitutional problems away from deliberations across the media. After the Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister resigned in February 2021, elections and democracy at Puducherry had been reduced to a laughing stock because the confidence motion initiated by the then Chief minister Narayanasamy was almost defeated at the instance of three MLAs nominated by the Union Government who helped the opposition outnumber MLAs from the party elected by the people. In a parliamentary democracy, immediately after elections to the legislative assembly, the Governor/Lieutenant Governor (L-G) invites the leader of the single largest party (or political coalition) to form the Government....