Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy has charged the Centre with booking cases against leaders of opposition parties, jailing themand threatening them through the income tax department and the Enforcement Directorate to gag their voice of protest.
Addressing participants in the ruling Congress demonstration here on Saturday to protest against what the party called injurious economic policies of the NDA, the Chief Minister said, "The Congress and the Shiv Sena were raising their voice against the Centre while other parties were virtually tight-lipped following the threat issued by the Centre by booking cases."
He said the Congress would continue its protest against the 'anti-people, unproductive economic and fiscal policies of the Centre.'
The chief minister further said the Congress volunteers should inform the people particularly in rural areas of the 'style and functioning of the Lieutenant Governor."