PUDUCHERRY: “Are you using a thicker needle? Politicians are usually thick-skinned,” PM Modi joked with nurse P Niveda who administered Covaxin to him at AIIMS, New Delhi, on Monday, reports Bosco Dominique.
The 28-year-old from Puducherry said the Prime Minister praised her saying he did not feel the jab. “The PM wished us and asked where we were from. The moment I said I am from Puducherry he said ‘Vanakkam’,” said Niveda, who did her nursing degree from Jipmer in Puducherry, where her father is an ambulance driver.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
PUDUCHERRY: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for questioning the Centre for not having an exclusive ministry for fishermen.
Modi, who was speaking at a public meeting in Puducherry, said Congress leaders would win gold, silver and bronze medals for telling lies. Modi said while the colonial rulers’ policy was to divide and rule the Congress’s policy is to divide, lie and rule.
Modi said the present NDA government set up the fisheries ministry in 2019. He said the government increased the ministry’s budget by 80% this year.
Puducherry is headed for the President s Rule as the opposition AIADMK has decided not to stake claim to form the government after the Congress-DMK government led by V Narayanasamy fell on Monday.
Leader of opposition N Rangasamy
CHENNAI: A day after Puducherry Congress government led by V Narayanaswamy lost its majority in the 33-member assembly, leader of opposition N Rangasamy on Wednesday asked the CM to prove his majority on the floor of the house and submitted a memorandum to the Lt Governor’s office seeking immediate convening of the Puducherry legislative assembly for a trust vote.
N Rangasamy, president of All India N R Congress, met G Theva Neethi Dhas, OSD to the Lt Governor, at Raj Nivas with a delegation of 14 MLAs belonging to opposition parties and submitted a letter. “The government has lost its majority and the CM should submit his resignation. We have urged the governor’s office to convene the assembly to test the strength of the ruling combine,” Rangasamy told reporters on Wednesday. He was accompanied by AIADMK and BJP MLAs.