MLA slams govt. over Oct. 2 event

  • | Saturday | 6th October, 2018

The Ministers stayed silent when Ms. Bedi asked the operator to switch off the microphone. The AIADMK leader said in the last two days the Minister’s supporters tried to portray the incident in a different light and burnt his effigy. Mr. Namassivayam tried to intervene at the last minute, he said. “He (Namassivayam) tried to grab my hand in an affectionate manner and I refused the gesture in the same manner.”“The Minister’s supporters construed that I was trying to attack him,” he said. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Mr. Anbalagan said Minister for Public Works A. Namassivayam and Minister for Education R. Kamalakannan were present on the stage when Ms. Bedi asked him to wind up his address.

more-in AIADMK leader A. Anbalagan has alleged that the government was trying to give a twist to events that unfolded at a Gandhi Jayanti function in which he and Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi sparred in public. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Mr. Anbalagan said Minister for Public Works A. Namassivayam and Minister for Education R. Kamalakannan were present on the stage when Ms. Bedi asked him to wind up his address. The Ministers stayed silent when Ms. Bedi asked the operator to switch off the microphone. Mr. Namassivayam tried to intervene at the last minute, he said. “He (Namassivayam) tried to grab my hand in an affectionate manner and I refused the gesture in the same manner.” “The Minister’s supporters construed that I was trying to attack him,” he said. The AIADMK leader said in the last two days the Minister’s supporters tried to portray the incident in a different light and burnt his effigy.

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