Lt Guv Bedi's water crisis remarks echoes in Assembly, DMK demands her removal
DMK legislators Monday staged a walkout from the Assembly after Speaker P Dhanapal did not allow Leader of Opposition M K Stalin to raise an issue involving remarks by Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on the water scarcity here.
The DMK also wanted Bedi to apologise for her comments and urged President Ram Nath Kovind to remove her from the office.
Stalin wanted to refer to Bedi's remarks while speaking in the House on a calling attention motion on the water shortage situation but Speaker did not allow him citing Assembly rules that forbade discussions about Governor.
Condemning the remarks by Bedi, Stalin led his party members in staging a walkout. Comments made by him and Law Minister C V Shanmugam on the issue were expunged by the Chair.
The Puducherry Lt Governor, referring to a media report on the water situation here, had said Sunday that Chennai has become the first city in the country to run dry four years after it witnessed floods due to copious rains.
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