The recent telecast of the ABN Andhra Jyoti tapes had its resonance all over the state .Activists leaders and public representatives questioning the propriety of Narayan Dutt Tiwari in holding the office of governor after the sex scandal broke out . Tiwari's office called the pictures a "pack of lies" and speedily obtained an order from the high court preventing the channel from running them. By early afternoon protests started outside Raj Bhavan. Telugu Desam leader and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu called for Tiwari’s resignation saying the governor’s office had been shamed. "If he doesn’t quit," Naidu said, "he should be sacked." "If it’s really Tiwari in the pictures," said Congress sources in Delhi, "he will have to go." Tiwari completed two years as Andhra governor in August. A long time Congress leader, he has been chief minister Uttarakhand and held several senior positions in the Union cabinet.Governor’s office issued a statement saying, "The Governor is 86 years old and in the evening of his life. It is sad and unfortunate that constitutional functionaries are dragged into needless controversies." Counsel for governor’s office Ravishanker Jandhyala said, "There is absolutely no truth in the alleged news story, which is nothing but sensation mongering." "We will definitely file a defamation case," he said, adding, "I issued a notice in the afternoon (to the channel)." But the channel said it was ready to defend its story. "We have evidence (to back) what we have shown," Vemuri Radhakrishna, editor in chief of Andhra Jyothi, told "Let them serve defamation notice … we are even ready to deal with the issue in the courts," he added. Stressing that Tiwari should not be allowed to occupy the Raj Bhavan even for a minute, senior TDP leader Devineni Umamaheswara Rao said: "We respected him as a constitutional head as well as an elderly man. His Gandhian speeches have made many of us believe that he is a principled man. It is damning to see that he is involved in a morally degrading affair with young girls,"
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