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Here to make Puducherry well administered: Kiran Bedi

Puducherry, Oct 29 (PTI) Puducherry Lt Governor KiranBedi, who has been at war of words with the Congressgovernment on many issues, said today tha...

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Puducherry, Oct 29 (PTI) Puducherry Lt Governor KiranBedi, who has been at war of words with the Congressgovernment on many issues, said today that she was in theunion territory to make it well administered and would be"happiest" if elected representatives worked hard for itsbetterment.

She stated this while referring to reports in a sectionof media that Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy had met UnionHome Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi, complaining of her'style of functioning.'Bedi in her tweet said, "the more we all work forPuducherry, the better.""Here to make Puducherry well administered with integrityand commitment. I shall be the happiest person if all theelected representatives led by you (chief minister) work thehardest. I shall thank you as would people of Puducherry, shetweeted.

Narayanasamy and some of his Cabinet colleagues had takenexception on several occasions to Bedi's style of functioning.

The Puducherry Lt Governor had stated some earlier thatshe was for the development of the union territory.

Bedi, who has been making weekend visits to variouspockets in rural, semi urban and urban pockets ever since sheassumed office in May last year, despite protests by politicalparties, had been assessing amenities available to people andidentifying 'deficiencies' in working of various departments.

She had camped in Karaikal for five days from October 23to 27, looking into the functioning of the government-runAgriculture Culture, predicament of fishermen, poormaintenance of the government general hospital and alsolacunae in availability of health care in the region. PTICORR APRKJ.

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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