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Puducherry CM Narayanasamy's dharna against LG Kiran Bedi continues on Day 2

Puducherry CM Narayanasamy continues his dharna for the second day after sleeping outside Raj Nivas last night

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Puducherry chief minister V. Narayanasamy on Thursday continued his dharna outside Raj Nivas, the official residence of Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, for the second day along with his Ministerial colleagues demanding that she accord sanction for 39 government proposals including a free rice scheme and Pongal gifts.

Amid the protest by the chief minister, Bedi left to Chennai to attend a private event as per her prior schedule and she would be leaving to New Delhi on Thursday evening.

Narayanasamy who dressed in black began his sudden dharna outside Raj Nivas on Wednesday afternoon taking everyone by surprise and he ate food and slept on the streets along with his supporters after rejecting Bedi’s offer for talks. “I reiterate that all my demands made in the letter dated February 7 to you needed to be addressed immediately. We will not relent until a lasting solution found to all the issues I raised in my letter,” he wrote in response to Bedi’s letter on Wednesday night.

The latest clash between Bedi and Narayanasamy was over the former’s move to enforce strict implementation of compulsory wearing of helmets despite the Congress government wanting to implement it in a phased manner after creating awareness among the public.

Narayanasamy who also signed files using flashlight said that he was forced to resort to dharna after Bedi ignored all the 22 letters written by him. “I have written 22 letters to her on various issues. Since she ignored all these letters we were forced to resort to protest. Only after our dharna she replied to my letter and giving us an appointment for February 21 but it will not take more than 30 mins for her to give approval for all the proposals” he told reporters.

Responding to Narayanasamy’s dharna, Bedi tweeted that he could have asked to meet instead of sitting on a dharna. “He writes a letter and demands a reply by resorting to a blockage of Raj Nivas. Totally avoidable, causing huge inconvenience to the general public,” she said. In the letter, she wrote that all issues raised by him need an examination for a considered response. “Needless to say none of the issues is pending at Raj Nivas (as being alleged). Besides you never said in your letter that unless you get a reply by February 13th you and your colleagues shall come and sit on a dharna outside. However, I invite you for a detailed discussion on your matters on February 21st at 10 am. Please confirm,” she wrote.

Chief minister, in his reply to the letter, said that all the issues raised in his letter dated February 7th were not something new. “I have been raising all these issues regularly either through letters or through the files. I would again reiterate that your various actions of commission and omissions, listed by me in my letter have made the people of Puducherry suffer and caused untold miseries. Your undemocratic acts and way of functioning exhibited to people ‘what can be the worst disastrous rule of a dictator?’ The autocratic attitude i.e, ‘I am the Government’, ‘I know everything’ and ‘I am everything’,” he said, adding that the peaceful protest was undertaken by him “is basically a people’s movement against your continuous acts of high-handed dictatorship”. He said that he would not relent until a lasting solution was found to all the issues raised by him in the letter.

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