The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday criticised Puducherry lieutenant- governor Kiran Bedi for interfering in the working of the government.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday criticised Puducherry lieutenant- governor Kiran Bedi for interfering in the working of the government.
The Centre is using tactics in the Union Territory similar to the one in Delhi, the party said.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh alleged that Ms Bedi, who was recently appointed as the Puducherry L-G, interferes in the working of the Union Territory to the extent that she even issues orders on the projects.
Attacking Ms Bedi, Somnath Bharti, AAP MLA and party’s in-charge of southern states, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed those people to the post of L-G who failed to realise their dreams of becoming chief minister.
“Kiran Bedi ji has said that her writ runs in Puducherry. She gives messages on Whatsapp groups, Twitter. Officers, including the police chief, is summoned and told that they should listen to her. Modi ji’s government has become a serious threat to democracy and the Constitution and has no faith in elected government,” Mr Singh alleged.
The AAP leader added that the Parliament should take note of this and pass a strong law to strengthen the federal structure of the country.
But Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Saturday asserted that there were no difference of opinion between his ministry and LG Kiran Bedi. “There is no clash between the Lt Governor and the ministry,” he said.
Ms Bedi and the AAP has been at the loggerheads ever since she parted ways with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal over the formation of AAP in 2012. She later joined the saffron party and was its chief ministerial candidate in the last year’s Assembly polls, which the BJP lost miserably.
