Kerala govt moves Supreme Court against Governor over pending assent to Bills

Earlier this week, the Tamil Nadu government, too, had moved the SC raising similar complaints against state Governor R N Ravi.

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The Kerala government has approached the Supreme Court against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, complaining that the latter was sitting on as many as eight Bills that “involve immense public interest”.

“Many of the Bills involve immense public interest, and provide for welfare measures which would stand deprived and denied to the people of the State to the extent of the delay”, the plea said, adding that the Governor’s conduct “threatens to defeat and subvert the very fundamentals and basic foundations of our Constitution, including the rule of law and democratic good governance, apart from defeating the rights of the people of the State to the welfare measures sought to be implemented through the Bills.”

It said that keeping the Bills pending “is also manifestly arbitrary and violates Article 14 of the Constitution” and “defeats the rights of the people of the State…under Article 21 of the Constitution, by denying them the benefits of welfare legislation enacted by the State Assembly”.

Earlier this week, the Tamil Nadu government, too, had moved the SC raising similar complaints against state Governor R N Ravi.

The state contended that the Governor’s actions had led to a “constitutional deadlock between the Constitutional Head of the State and the Elected Government of the State” and urged the court to fix a timeline within which the Governor should give assent to Bills cleared by the state legislature.

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