Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Saturday warned that those indulging in "anti people activities" and impeding welfare of the people will be "jettisoned".
His statement comes a day after Lt Governor Kiran Bedi alleged brow-beating of officials in the territorial administration by a section of political parties, "to overawe them and to hopefully make them ineffective."
In his greeting message to the people of Puducherry on the eve of 71st Republic Day, Narayanasamy, who has been at loggerheads with Bedi, pointed out that the principles of democracy envisaged honouring the welfare of the people.
He said, "those indulging in anti people activities and rejecting the welfare of the people will be jettisoned as in a democracy the privileges of the people should be honoured."
"People are supreme in a Republican set up and hence there would be no room for those acting to the detriment of welfare of the people."
In an open letter to team members (officers) of the administration, the former IPS officer had said she was aware that some of the officials and their juniors were being brow- beaten by vested interests "to overawe them and to hopefully make them ineffective."
The reasons for the open letter were apparently because of the recent advertisement of the Local Administration Department for recruitment of a state Election Commissioner here, and the consequent protest by the ruling Congress.
Speaker V P Sivakolundhu, Ministers and leaders of different political parties were among those who greeted people on the eve of the Republic Day.
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