First Tamil Nadu. Then Kerala. Now Karnataka. The pattern is clear and deliberate. Governors refusing to read the speech prepared by state...
M.K. Stalin said a pattern was emerging of governors in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and now Karnataka refusing to read the government-prepared address and instead acting like party agents against elected state governments. He said the DMK would work with like-minded opposition parties to pursue a constitutional amendment abolishing the practice of a Governor's address opening each year's first Assembly session.
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First Tamil Nadu. Then Kerala. Now Karnataka. The pattern is clear and deliberate.
Governors refusing to read the speech prepared by state governments and behaving like party agents, undermining duly elected state governments.
As I stated earlier, the only solution now is to end the practice of commencing the first annual Assembly session with the #Governor’s address.
#DMK will consult like-minded opposition parties across India and pursue a constitutional amendment in the very next parliamentary session to abolish this obsolete and irrelevant practice.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said a clear and deliberate pattern had emerged across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and now Karnataka, of state Governors refusing to read the customary address prepared by their respective state governments and instead behaving, in his words, like agents of a political party, undermining democratically elected state governments. Stalin said the only solution was to end the constitutional practice of opening each year's first Assembly session with a Governor's address. He announced that the DMK would consult with like-minded opposition parties across India and pursue a constitutional amendment in the next parliamentary session to abolish what he called this 'obsolete and irrelevant' practice. The statement reflects an escalation in the ongoing tensions between DMK-led and other opposition-ruled state governments and Governors appointed by the Union Government, centering on disputes over Centre-State relations and gubernatorial conduct.