V. Narayanasamy steps down as Puducherry CM
Chennai, 22 February(HS): Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy today resigned from his position this morning.
He submitted his resignation to the Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan after he lost the confidence vote in assembly today.
With Chief Minister submitting his resignation, the Congress-DMK led government has fallen. This is the seventh time in the union territory that a government has fallen down owing to a lack of a majority.
The government under the leadership of V. Narayanasamy went under crisis soon after five Congress MLAs and one DMK MLA resigned.
Also, one Congress MLA was disqualified earlier. After this, the Government led by Narayanasamy was reduced to 12 members which included the speaker.
With this Puducherry Government, led by V. Narayanasamy had to prove its majority in the assembly.
Chief Minister Narayanasamy enquired with Speaker VP Sivakozhunthu whether nominated MLAs could vote during the no-confidence motion as they cannot put their vote in the primary election.
Narayanasamy left even before Speaker gave the reply. As Narayanasamy moved out, Speaker declared confidence vote was defeated.
The opposition now has about 14 MLAs and three of them are nominated members and are also BJP functionaries.
V. Narayanasamy said there seems to be an element of a conspiracy by BJP central government in doing away with his government.
This is a murder of democracy, he said. Pointing towards Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, and Madhya Pradesh, he said governments were toppled there also by BJP.
The members of the ruling party in these states are made to resign either by luring them or threatening them with Income Tax, CBI, or Enforcement Directorate cases or raids.
The same thing has happened in Puducherry too, said Narayanasamy.
Central Government and former Lt Governor Kiran Bedi tried their best to block the implementation of welfare measures.
However, his government did all the best despite all the hindrances that came their way, he said.
