Centre trying to 'strangulate' democratically elected govt in

Senior Congress leader Mukul Wasnik Tuesday charged the NDA government at the Centre with trying to "strangulate" the democratically elected government in Puducherry.

Addressing a meeting to celebrate the 75th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Tuesday here, Wasnik said the Centre was "creating problems" for the territorial government.

"But, Chief Minister V Narayanasamy and his cabinet colleagues would fight out the challenge posed by the Centre and they would all be successful in their efforts to protect democracy."
Hitting out at the central government for withdrawing the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir, wasnik said "Jammu and Kashmir had a state government. But now it had been reduced to a status of a Union Territory and two Union Territories have been carved out of Jammu and Kashmir."