Save Lakshadweep from its administrator: Rahul to PM Modi Despite the pandemic, the administration demolished structures used by the fisherfolk, fired contractual workers in various government departments, and relaxed quarantine norms that led to a lethal strike in Covid cases: Rahul New Delhi: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Modi, in his capacity as a Lok Sabha MP, to intervene and save the people of Lakshadweep by withdrawing the orders issued unilaterally by its Administrator Praful Khoda Patel without consulting elected representatives or the public. He referred to the arbitrary policies declared by Patel (64), a BJP leader from Himmatnagar and former Gujarat home minister under then Narendra Modi government, who took over as the administrator of the union territories of Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu last December, accusing him of undermining the ecological sanctity of the island in the draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulations issued recently.