Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin lashed out at Governor R.N. Ravi for walking out of the assembly session on Monday and charged the latter has made it a behaviour to violate legislative democracy.
Stalin charged the governor has been continuously insulting the people of Tamil Nadu through his actions. “According to the Constitution, it is a tradition of the legislative democracy that the state governor reads the government's address at the beginning of the year! @rajbhavan_TN has made it his custom to violate it,” the chief minister charged.
Calling the governor’s behaviour “childish”, Stalin said the governor, who earlier cut out what was there in the speech and added what was not, has gone without reading the speech this time. “The governor has been continuously insulting the people of Tamil Nadu, the government elected by them, and the century-old Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and it is unbecoming of the position he holds,” the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader said.
Why was Ravi sticking to his gubernatorial post "when he does not have a heart to discharge his Constitutional duties," Stalin asked.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly convened on Monday for its first session this year and the session was scheduled to begin with Governor Ravi’s address. Though Ravi reached the assembly, he immediately left upset over the national anthem not being played before his speech, along with Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu.
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Accusing the Tamil Nadu government of “brazenly disrespecting” the Constitution and the national anthem, the governor’s office in a statement said, “The Constitution of Bharat and the National Anthem were once again insulted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly today. It is sung in all the state legislatures at the beginning and the end of Governor’s address.”
“Today on arrival of Governor to the House only Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu was sung. Governor respectfully reminded the House of its Constitutional Duty and fervently appealed to the Hon'ble Chief Minister who is the Leader of the House and the Hon'ble Speaker for singing the National Anthem. However, they cussedly refused,” the governor charged. The governor raised the issue last year as well and said, “My repeated request and advice to show due respect to the national anthem and play it at the beginning and end of the address has been ignored.”
The Tamil Nadu passed a resolution unanimously condemning the governor for his act.
