PUDUCHERRY CM THREATENING ME, SAYS KIRAN BEDI
PUDUCHERRY: Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Saturday alleged that UT’s chief minister V Narayanasamy was “threatening” her for her views on alleged medical admission scam, hours after the chief minister accused her of making derogatory statements against him and said he would sue her for defamation.
Earlier on Saturday, the chief minister had said a decision on filing a defamation suit against Be di will be taken after consulting legal experts for her“base less and derogatory statements” against him, his ministerial colleagues and officials.
Be di, who has been at loggerheads with the Congress government on several issues, had said in a Whats A pp message to reporters ,“Prior to festivities we clean our homes... The CBI has done this for Puducherry this year...”
She said the CBI had filed an FIR and named six officers of the Puducherry government as accused in“criminality committed by them( in admission of students to medical colleges here ).”
“It is quite strange that a constitutional position of a Lt Governor is being threatened( byCM),” she said.
The former IPS officer said that“instead of seeking an explanation from Chief Secretary as to why this (irregularity in admission) had happened, the CM is threatening the L-G and the media for doing its duty”.
“Six officers of the government, two IAS officers, senior officials and a director (now under the CBI scanner) are bound to be a cause of embarrassment to the CM ,” she said.
The registration of a case by the CBI and raids by the agency prior to the lodging of the FIR recently indicate that there is a p rim a fa cie case( against the officers ), she said.