Bedi pledges to ensure 'financial prudence' in Puducherry

"My #NewIndiaPledge #SankalpSeSiddhi is to keep ensuring FinancialPrudence in Puducherry," she said in a message on her Twitter handle on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement.

Bedi, who has been loggerheads with the Congress government over many issues, has insisted on financial prudence on several occasions and come out with suggestions to the government in this regard through her WhatsApp communication and also her Twitter handle.

Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor (officiating) Anisa Basheer Khan administered the 'New India pledge' to staff and employees of the university.

A release from the university's Assistant Registrar K Mahesh said the pledge ('Sankalp se Siddhi') envisaged creation of "clean India and India free from poverty, corruption, terrorism, communalism and casteism."