INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Puducherry, has been bombarded with criticism on social media over her tweets congratulating France for its FIFA World Cup victory
"We won," she tweeted in her first reaction, in a reference to Puducherry's past as a French colony."Congrats my brothers sisters in
In Puducherry we can build on this spirit of celebration by promoting football in UT by organising inter village, inter town and inter city
It costs just ONE ball to unite, as was visible in French Team," she tweeted last night, after France defeated Croatia 4-2 in the FIFA
final.As the message gathered more criticism and derision than World Cup cheer, Kiran Bedi followed it up with a tweet underlining that
Puducherry is an "erstwhile French Territory".Puducherry, earlier known as Pondicherry, was a French colony until it merged into the Indian
Union in 1962.Ms Bedi's first tweet baffled many who wondered what she meant by saying "we won"
Her two years in office have been fairly controversial, with constant run-ins with the Congress government and Chief Minister V
