Tamil Nadu approaches SC alleging Governor intentionally delaying bills

New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has accused the state Governor RN Ravi of intentionally delaying the clearance of the bills that the government handed to him.

The DMK government has taken up the matter with the Supreme Court, urging the apex court to direct the Governor to give assent to or dispose of the bills within a time frame.

The standoff between Chief Minister MK Stalin’s DMK government and NR Ravi boiled up to the brim several times in the past over various issues.

They are in disagreement over pending bills, Stalin's foreign trips, the Dravidian model of governance, among others.

The government reportedly told the Supreme Court the Governor had not on time cleared the bills and orders handed to him by the state assembly.

The government claimed that the files pending before the Governor for sanction include twelve bills, four prosecution sanctions and file pertaining to the premature release of 54 prisoners.

While the government alleged ‘undermining the will of people’, the Governor earlier this year caused a storm with his remarks on state’s name on January 4.

‘Here in Tamil Nadu, a different kind of narrative has been created. Everything that applies to the whole of the country, Tamil Nadu will say no. It has become a habit. So many theses have been written - all false and poor fiction. Truth must prevail.Thamizhagam would be a more appropriate word to call it', he was quoted as saying.

When it stirred up huge controversy in the state, the Governor quickly said that inferring he made a suggestion for changing the state’s name is ‘erroneous and far-fetched’.

Once RN Ravi walked out of the assembly over difference in reading out the speech prepared by the state government.