INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit held a press conference on Tuesday evening to clear his name from a controversy surrounding a
professor arrested in the 'sex for degrees' case
However, the Governor walked into another row when he patted the cheek of a woman journalist, without her consent, seemingly to dodge her
question.The incident took place when the 78-year-old Governor was about to leave the venue of the crowded press conference at the Raj
as his press conference was ending
He decided to patronisingly - and without consent - pat me on the cheek as a reply."Calling it unprofessional behavior, the journalist,
Lakshmi Subramanian, said it was completely uncalled for to touch a stranger without consent."This, moments after he dismissed a barrage of
questions about allegations of sexual misconduct against himself
tweeted "even if the intention is above suspicion, a person who holds a public office has to understand that there is a decorum to it and
violating a woman journalist's personal space does not reflect the dignity or the respect which should be shown to any human being."It is
not only unfortunate, but unbecoming of a person holding a constitutional post," DMK Working President MK Stalin said on Twitter.The
Governor had held the press conference after a Nirmala Devi, professor at Devanga Arts College accused of making tacit requests for sexual
favours to her students on behalf of officials of the Madurai Kamaraj University, had claimed she knows the Governor, who is the chancellor
