Puducherry: Verbal fight broke out between governor Kiran Bedi and AIADMK MLA at the sage on camera after the MLA asked to wrap speech, see video
A verbal fight broke out between an AIADMK MLA and Puducherry governor Kiran Bedi on the stage after the MLA was asked to wrap up speech during an event on Tuesday. The whole fight happened on camera.
A video shared by the news agency ANI shows that Bedi is engaging into war of words with the MLA Anbalagan on the stage reportedly over the duration of his speech.
Sharing the video on its twitter account, the ANI wrote “Verbal spat on stage between Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi and AIADMK MLA A Anbalagan at a government function. The argument reportedly broke out over duration of MLA's speech”.
In the video, Bedi is being seen to direct the MLA to leave the stage and the MLA in turn told her to go. Bide told him ‘please go’, Anbalagan shot back and said ‘please go’.
As the two were fighting each other, other dignitaries seated on the stage are looking on. As the face off continued, one of the dignitaries intervened.
#WATCH Verbal spat on stage between Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi and AIADMK MLA A Anbalagan at a government function. The argument reportedly broke out over duration of MLA's speech pic.twitter.com/bptFSr80nC
— ANI (@ANI) October 2, 2018
Bedi also tweeted about the incident. She said “An MLA's Mike had to b turned off when he persistently rejected any req from panel of Hble Ministers to limit his speech. He rejected all appeals. He shouted back. I hav seen him do this earlier too. Event was to give away awards for good work done in making Puducherry ODF (sic)”.
The incident happened during an event to mark Puducherry’s status as a Union Territory free of open defecation.
First published: 2 October 2018, 17:04 IST