Read more about Narayanasamy, ruling Congress DMK MLAs resign after losing confidence vote on Business Standard. After staging a walkout from the Assembly before the motion seeking confidence vote was put up for voting in the House
The Congress government in Puducherry fell on Monday after Chief Minister V Narayanasamy resigned ahead of the confidence vote in the Assembly with the coalition ministry reduced to a minority due to a spate of resignations of party MLAs and a DMK legislator recently. Narayanasamy met Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and submitted the resignation of his four-member Cabinet, ahead of the Assembly elections due in April-May. With the exit of the Congress government here, Punjab, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are the only three states in the country ruled by the party on its own. Holding that Speaker V P Sivakolundhu did not put to vote the motion moved by him for a confidence vote, the Congress veteran said the former s ruling that it stood defeated was “incorrect and invalid”.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi & BJP leaders got into conflict at a hotel in Siddipet
Kiran Bedi was removed from her current post as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry on Tuesday, a late-evening statement released by Rashtrapati Bhavan confirmed. The statement released by President Ram Nath Kovind s office also said that Dr Tamilisai Soundaranjan, Governor of Telangana, will be given the additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
Here s the full statement released by the Rashtrapati Bhavan
The President has directed that Dr. Kiran Bedi shall cease to hold the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry and has appointed Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana, to discharge the functions of the Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry, in addition to her own duties, with effect from the date she assumes charge of her office, until regular arrangements for the office of Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry are made.