Escalating his long-running feud with Lt Governor Kiran Bedi over her style of functioning, CM V Narayanasamy said she "appears to be sister of German dictator Adolf Hitler" and his blood pressure "shoots up" whenever she negates cabinet decisions. Mounting a sharp attack on the former IPS officer, he said she was "standing in the way" of each and every decision of the ministry.

Drawing parallel between German dictator Adolf Hitler and Indira Gandhi, Union minister Arun Jaitley today said that both turned democracy into dictatorship. In the second of the three-part series of an article 'The Emergency Revisited', Jaitley said, Gandhi went a step ahead by endeavouring to transform India into "dynastic democracy". "Both Hitler and Mrs. Gandhi never abrogated the Constitution," he added.