Chennai: Jose Charles Martin, businessman and son of India’s lottery king Santiago Martin, is set to launch a political party in December, ThePrint has learnt. The formal announcement will be made in the second week of December, with Puducherry as the party’s headquarters.

The party plans to contest all 30 seats in the 2026 Puducherry assembly elections, a source familiar with the matter said.

Jose made his political debut in 2015 with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He joined the party in the presence of the then organising secretary Ram Madhav. Although he failed to win in either the 2016 or the 2021 assembly elections, sources in the BJP say he was supported by the party’s Kamaraj Nagar MLA John Kumar, who once worked with Santiago Martin as a lottery agent. Show Full Article

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