NEW DELHI: Alleging a “constitutional deadlock” due to non-cooperation of the governor who was not giving assent to bills passed by the state assembly, the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking specific timelines for the constitutional authority to act.
“The governor’s inactions have caused a constitutional deadlock between the constitutional head of the state and the elected government.By not acting upon constitutional functions, the governor is toying with the citizen’s mandate,” the petition said.
The state said it had filed the petition to “declare that the inaction, omission, delay and failure to comply with the constitutional mandate by the governor of Tamil Nadu on the consideration and assent of bills passed and forwarded by the state legislature to him and the non-consideration of files, government orders and policies forwarded by the state government for his signature, was unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable besides malafide exercise of power”.
It said 12 bills passed by the assembly, files pertaining to the accord of sanction for prosecution and investigation of various crimes of corruption by public servants and files pertaining to the premature release of prisoners forwarded by the government were pending with the governor.
“Sitting on the bills indefinitely and refusing to look into the files forwarded by the state in exercise of his constitutional functions by the governor amounts to abuse of his powers and is also in violation of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution,” the petition said.
“The governor’s inactions have caused a constitutional deadlock between the constitutional head of the state and the elected government.By not acting upon constitutional functions, the governor is toying with the citizen’s mandate,” the petition said.
The state said it had filed the petition to “declare that the inaction, omission, delay and failure to comply with the constitutional mandate by the governor of Tamil Nadu on the consideration and assent of bills passed and forwarded by the state legislature to him and the non-consideration of files, government orders and policies forwarded by the state government for his signature, was unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable besides malafide exercise of power”.
It said 12 bills passed by the assembly, files pertaining to the accord of sanction for prosecution and investigation of various crimes of corruption by public servants and files pertaining to the premature release of prisoners forwarded by the government were pending with the governor.
“Sitting on the bills indefinitely and refusing to look into the files forwarded by the state in exercise of his constitutional functions by the governor amounts to abuse of his powers and is also in violation of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution,” the petition said.
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