Mahe shares all its cultural traits with Kerala, yet does not share the vibrant political situation of the State. It may come as a shock for the common people in Kerala that the CPI(M), the ruling party in the State, and its arch rival the Indian National Congress have put forth a single candidate against the Bharatiya Janata Party here. More so, one cannot find a poster of any political party or otherwise in this erstwhile French territory that is now an assembly constituency under the Puducherry Lok Sabha segment.
However it is not the seemingly one sided political battle, between the incumbent MP, V.Vaidyalingam of the INDIA bloc and Home and Education Minister of Puducherry A.Namassivayam of the NDA, that is going to mark Mahe in the pages of history this time, but the 140 women polling officers.
