Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated Tuesday that the Supreme Court docket verdict on Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi is a victory of democracy and a warning in opposition to the tendency of Governors to usurp the powers of the Meeting. The highest court docket has declared as misguided and unlawful the motion of Governor Ravi in reserving 10 Payments for the consideration of the President in November final 12 months after their due reconsideration by the state Meeting.
Kerala too had confronted an analogous state of affairs in the course of the time period of former governor Arif Mohammed Khan, who withheld assent for a number of payments handed by the state meeting.
Vijayan, in a press release, stated the Supreme Court docket verdict upholds the federal system and the democratic rights of the Meeting. “The Supreme Court docket had made clear a number of instances up to now that governors are certain to behave as per the recommendation of the cupboard. In Tuesday’s verdict, it discovered that the Supreme Court docket had fastened a deadline for ratifying the payments. This verdict is a warning in opposition to the tendency of governors usurping the powers of the legislative meeting. That is the victory of democracy,” he stated.
“We now have an analogous state of affairs in Kerala the place consent for the payments had been withheld for even 23 months. The state is in a authorized battle in opposition to it. This verdict underscores the importance and significance of such points raised by Kerala,” he stated.
When Khan served as Kerala governor, eight payments handed by the Meeting from 2022 to 2023 had been pending with Raj Bhavan. After Khan neither gave his assent to the payments nor referred them to the President, the Authorities in November 2023 moved the Supreme Court docket in opposition to him, highlighting the delay in clearing the payments handed by the meeting.
The Supreme Court docket had then noticed that Governors couldn’t “thwart the conventional course of lawmaking”. Khan then gave assent to 1 invoice and referred seven for presidential assent.
Final 12 months, the President cleared 4 payments, however assent was withheld for 3, together with one envisaged to divest the governor from the place of chancellor of universities in Kerala.
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