Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Friday said the Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi is a woman without a conscience as she is allegedly adopting a revengeful attitude against the elected government.
Addressing a press conference here, he said the Territorial government, under his leadership, had made rapid strides in several key sectors.
To buttress that statement, Narayanasamy referred to the Department of Personnel and Administrative Affairs of the Central government which had come out with an official report stating that among the Union Territories, Puducherry has 'notched the top rank in governance, public health, human resources development sector and in maintenance of law and order and security.'
He claimed this as a "Himalayan achievement for my government and also for the entire team of Ministers and officers."
Narayanasamy expressed hope the New year 2020 would, however, turn for the better as 'the people as a whole are totally backing the secular democratic parties.'
When his attention was drawn to the Lt Governor's objection to the proposal of the government to bring in casinos, he reacted vociferously and wanted Bedi to 'first raise her objection to the government of Goa where the casino is in place.'
He asked, "Who is Bedi to question our proposal for the casino as Puducherry is a tourist destination. We are starved of funds to run the government and we are in a fix for want of funds to pay the salaries to employees and workers in certain sectors."
Bedi also expressed apprehension that "if we in the administration had concurred with Chief Minister and few others in the cabinet for facilitating casinos, lottery companies and breweries around in open market our students perhaps would take to gambling and beer-drinking habits."
She pointed out in her message that "we have kept the wolf of gambling and social pollution away from the lives of people of Puducherry."