Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday sought President Droupadi Murmu’s intervention to make certain that Governor R.N. Ravi acts as consistent with Article 163 (1) of the Constitution. He entreated Ms. Murmu to advocate Mr. Ravi to assist the authorities to offer an green management and support democracy.
The precis of Mr. Stalin’s letter, which became passed over to the President with the aid of using State Law Minister S. Regupathy, DMK Parliamentary birthday birthday celebration chief T.R. Baalu and others in New Delhi, discovered that the Chief Minister desired the Governor now no longer to take a political and ideological stand on public systems and paintings for the humans with out violating values and subculture accompanied for plenty years.
Article 163 (1) says that “there will be a council of Ministers with the leader Minister at the top to useful resource and advocate the Governor withinside the workout of his features, besides in to date as he’s with the aid of using or beneathneath this charter required to workout his features or any of them in his discretion.”
The excerpts of the letter, which became launched to the media, stated that it became written with the purpose of retaining cordial dating among numerous pillars of democracy and they ought to render their responsibility in an powerful manner.
Mr. Stalin had defined that on January nine at some stage in the Governor’s cope with to the House a decision became followed withinside the Assembly due to the fact the Governor in violation of the Assembly guidelines blanketed his personal contents and skipped some quantities withinside the revealed speech. “Since he had skipped the names of leaders celebrated with the aid of using Tamil Nadu and India, the decision became followed to hold their call withinside the Assembly records,” he stated.
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Mr. Stalin stated the Governor’s publish became the best workplace in a kingdom and “we hold him on a excessive pedestal.”
“But on the identical time a Governor ought to be politically impartial. But Mr. Ravi is adopting a political and ideological disagreement with the kingdom authorities. It is in opposition to the Constitution. He is expressing himself as someone who has a stridently anti-stand in opposition to Tamil humans’s specific way of life, literature and inclusive politics,” Mr. Stalin knowledgeable the President withinside the letter.
He additionally charged the Governor became now no longer capable of take delivery of the Dravidian principles, social justice, self-appreciate and rationalism accompanied with the aid of using the humans of the kingdom. “He has been expressing perspectives in opposition to Tamil way of life and literature on public systems. What he did withinside the Assembly is visible as an extension of what he’s doing outside,” he alleged.
The Chief Minister stated the Governor skipped the phrases including Dravidian Model authorities, self-appreciate, inclusive growth, equality, communal concord and women’s liberation. “He additionally refused to study out the reference made to leaders including Periyar, Kamaraj and Dr. Ambedkar. By his action, he had subjected to impeach the thoughts near the coronary heart of the humans,” he stated.
Mr. Stalin additionally drew the President’s interest to the put off because of the Governor in giving his nod to critical Bills exceeded withinside the Assembly.
“Tamil Nadu is a kingdom that continually welcomes humans from different states and international locations and is understood for its hospitality. People belonging to numerous religions, languages and regions are dwelling in amity. The Governor is attempting to disturb peace with the aid of using talking in opposition to the loved thoughts of Tamil Nadu,” he alleged.
