N D Tiwari’s continuance as Andhra Pradesh Governor appears to have become untenable on Saturday with indications that the 86-year-old leader may be asked to go in the wake of a sting operation that purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women.The Central Government has asked for a report from the state government and knowledgeable sources here said that he may be asked to quit the post following severe embarrassment to the Congress party.

After the sting operation was telecast on Friday by the ABN Andhra Jyothi channel, the Raj Bhavan approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court and got a restraint order on the channel from telecasting the footage.

However, the channel’s Editor-in-Chief Vemuri Radhakrishna said that they have evidence to back what they have shown. “Let them serve defamation notice. We are even ready to deal with the issue”.

Sources in the Government said the Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary has been asked to give a report on the issue and it will take a view once it is received.
Congress sources said that the party is concerned over the issue as it has embarrassed it. They said the embarrassment was more acute because of Tiwari’s long association with the party and he may have to go.

Meanwhile, women’s groups staged protests near the Raj Bhavan here Saturday demanding that Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari resign over his alleged involvement in a “sex scandal”, an allegation he has denied and termed “malicious”.
The channel quoted Radhika, a woman from Uttarakhand, as saying that she sent the young women to Raj Bhavan on Tiwari’s request through his aide. She claimed that she was exposing the governor as he failed to keep his word to provide her an iron ore mining licence.

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