NE NEWS SERVICE
PUDUCHERRY, JAN 19
Puducherry Welfare Minister M Kandasamy on Tuesday ended his over a week long dharna, protesting the alleged delay by Lt Governor Kiran Bedi in clearing certain project files, after Chief Minister V Narayanasamy requested him to call it off.
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Earlier, Narayanasamy and his ministerial colleagues staged a dharna here, protesting ”denial” of permission by central forces to meet Kandasamy. However he was later allowed to meet him.
The Chief Minister informed Kandasamy that he would lead a delegation of ministers to Delhi on January 21 or 22 to meet the President, seeking his intervention to sort out various differences with the Lt Governor.
The welfare minister then ended his dharna and returned to his office, accompanied by the Chief Minister and other colleagues.
Later Kandasamy was admitted to the government general hospital here for a medical checkup after he complained of fatigue, official sources said Kandasamy had gone on an indefinite dharna outside the Assembly premises since January 10 over the matter. He suspended it on January 18 on the request of the speaker V P Sivakolundhu to attend the one day session of the territorial assembly, which adopted a resolution demanding repeal of the central farm laws.
On Tuesday morning, he shifted the venue from the assembly premises to the front of the Raj Nivas.
