Criticising the Union Territory government for failing to maintain law and order, Union Minister V Narayanasamy demanded resignation of Chief Minister N Rangasamy, owning moral responsibility for the recent attack on the police entourage that killed a notorious rowdy, Jegan.
Narayanasamy said that gang rivalries involving murders, chain snatchings, house burglaries, land and house grabbing incidents have created fear and insecurity among the people in the UT. He said that the Chief Minister, who was holding the home portfolio, had not taken any steps to curb the crimes despite the opposition parties bringing it to notice repeatedly.
Narayanasamy said that he met the union home minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, and raised the law and order situation in the Union Territory. He also urged the union home minister to monitor the law and order situation and asked him to seek a report from the Lt Governor on it. “If necessary I would also request Shinde to visit UT for assessment of situation,” he added.
The Union Minister also revealed that Congress would submit a memorandum to the Lt Governor on the deteriorating law and order situation in the UT. Pointing to the murder of rowdy Jegan, who was being taken to Karaikal jail after appearing before the court in Puducherry, by a rival gang in broad daylight, Narayanasamy said that Puducherry, which was known as peace haven, has become a “rowdy rajyam.”
The minister said that the rowdies were threatening business even from the jail demanding mamool. Narayanasamy, who addressed reporters along with the PCC president, A V Subramanian, alleged that though 24 persons were recommended to be booked under the Goondas Act, the CM did not take any action against them as more than 50 per cent of the anti-socials in the list from his constituency.
Narayanasamy asked that if Jegan, in spite of being escorted by armed policemen, was murdered in broad daylight, how could the public, who have no protection, live in peace?
The Union Minister demanded an inquiry by a retired Madras High Court judge into the murder and the culprit should be brought to book and punished.
Later when asked whether the police were deterred because they were not given a free hand, Narayanasamy cited three reasons for it. The state government had no will to maintain proper law and order, the rowdy had the patronage of the ruling party and police were inefficient to handle the situation, Narayanasamy said.
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