Don’t ruin social, spiritual health of UT in name of development, warns LT Governor

In a WhatsApp message, Bedi stressed that eternal vigilance is the price of social and spiritual health. Earlier, the  Lt Governor wanted the Chief Minister to explain if ‘opening of casino (as proposed by the government) be termed development.’ She also pointed out in her message that ‘we have kept the ‘wolf of gambling’ away from a spiritual and pristine Puducherry.’ In the grab of development, people do not want to gamble and lose out their hard earned earnings or do they want their children be corrupted, she said. Bedi also expressed apprehension that “if we in the administration had concurred with Chief Minister and few others in the cabinet for facilitating casinos, lottery companies and breweries around in open market our students perhaps would take to gambling and beer drinking habits.” This would hurt social and spiritual fabric of Puducherry benefitting only some vested interests, she said. She pointed out in her message that “we have kept the wolf of gambling and social pollution away from the lives of people of Puducherry.” She appealed to the people to remain watchful and ensure that at no time such wolves enter even by default in the name of development. It would have also polluted the clean tourist environment in the whole region and also would have impacted the quality of tourists coming from all over —Nationally and Internationally, she added.