Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Monday ended his sit-in in after a meeting with Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, saying “partial success” was achieved on various demands.
CM V Narayanasamy who was staging a dharna outside Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi along with his ministers, which entered its sixth day on Monday, over various demands such as increasing assistance under old age and widow pension schemes.
The chief minister also said he and his cabinet colleagues also suspended other agitations, including Jail Bharo and the fast slated for February 20 and 21.
‘Today Dr Kiran Bedi called us for a discussion on the demands on the issues of the people of Puducherry which were raised before her in a letter given on 7 February 2019. We had a 4.5 hours meeting in which we were able to resolve certain major issues of the people’, Chief Minister V Narayanasamy said after meeting with Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi.
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“We are suspending all the agitations slated for the next two days against Kiran Bedi as we could score partial success on various public issues at the meeting we had with her,” Narayanasamy said at a press conference after an over four-hour-long meeting with Bedi at her office.
‘We were able to resolve issues to a certain extent – free rice, additional old age pension for 10000 people, increase in age limit in the recruitment of police constables, sugar mill to be auctioned in public&settle dues of employees&mill workers, AFT mill VRS issue’ he said.
Puducherry CM: We were able to resolve issues to a certain extent – free rice, additional old age pension for 10000 people, increase in age limit in recruitment of police constables, sugar mill to be auctioned in public&settle dues of employees&mill workers, AFT mill VRS issue. https://t.co/BjqcKtQAza
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2019
There was the issue to delegate financial powers to CM & ministers for which GoI had sent an advisory to Lt Governor. She agreed that she will give the powers from 1 April 2019. Meanwhile, officers have to be trained for that purpose.
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He said after the talks with the Lt Governor he and his cabinet colleagues met at the committee room and it was decided “unanimously” by ministers and legislators that “the agitations including jail bharo and massive fast slated for February 20 and 21 are suspended”.
Narayanasamy also said the dharna outside the assembly was also called off immediately after the meeting.
He said the talks were held at the invitation of the Lt Governor on various issues listed by him in his letter sent to her on February 7.
She also accepted the government’s representation for posting of teachers on contract basis and appointment of nurses in government hospitals, Narayanasamy said.
Early on Monday, CM V Narayanasamy urged Centre Intervention in the whole Issue. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also meet him earlier in Delhi and extended his Solidarity him over the power tussle.
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