AMN / NEW DELHI
Dr. Kiran Bedi has been removed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
In a press communiqué, Rashtrapati Bhawan said, Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana has been given additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
The order, which comes as the ruling Congress navigates a crisis of numbers, has been widely seen as a political move by the BJP to negate their rivals’ primary campaign platform and further weaken them ahead of elections in May. It also comes hours after a fourth Congress leader resigned from the Assembly, leaving Mr Narayanasamy’s government on the brink of collapse. Mr Narayanasamy, however, has dismissed such talk and stressed: “Our government is not in the minority.”
In her tenure as the lieutenant-governor of the Union Territory, Bedi has come under the scanner multiple times for her controversial tweets. Here’s a quick look at some of those tweets which generated controversies during her tenure as the Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry.
- Sun chants Om
In January, 2020, Bedi was trolled over a video she shared on Twitter. The video claimed that American space agency NASA’s recording shows that the “Sun Chants Om”.
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— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) January 4, 2020
- COVID-19 was due to the ‘karma’ of meat-eaters
In another Twitter post that she later claimed to have shared only because it was “ in WhatsApp all over”, the first woman IPS officer of the country implied the COVID-19 outbreak happened because of the ‘karma’ accrued by people eating meat.
The post was trolled on social media sites, with several users slamming it as in ‘poor taste’. Bedi shared an image of human beings put inside a cage, surrounded from the outside by animals. The picture had the title: “It’s not Corona, its Karma.”