Supreme Court’s Tamil Nadu governor bills judgement does not apply to Kerala case, claims Centre
The Union government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that its recent judgement laying down a timeline for the Tamil Nadu governor to act on bills passed by the Assembly will not apply to the case filed by Kerala, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Joymala Bagchi was hearing a petition filed by Kerala in 2023 against the governor’s delay in acting on bills.
Advocate KK Venugopal, representing the Kerala government, argued that the Supreme Court’s April 8 verdict in the matter pertaining to the Tamil Nadu governor covers Kerala’s case too.
The Supreme Court’s ruling came on a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government after Governor RN Ravi did not act on several bills for over three years before rejecting them and sending some to the president.
Most of the bills related to higher education, including measures to remove the governor as chancellor of state universities. Of the 10 re-enacted bills sent to the president in November 2023, one was approved, seven were rejected and two were pending.
The court held that Ravi’s decision to withhold assent to 10 bills, some of which were pending since January 2020, and refer them to the president after they were re-enacted by the Assembly was “illegal and erroneous”.
The court declared that the 10 bills would be deemed...
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