Stalin does not respect Bharat; DMK leader arrogant: Governor Ravi rebuts TN CM's ‘childish’ remark over national anthem row
The tussle between Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin over the national anthem continues and the governor said the chief minister neither “respects Bharat nor the Constitution”.
In a statement published by Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan on social media platform X, the governor said Stalin has betrayed the true intentions of the Constitution. “Thiru @mkstalin asserts that insisting on due respect to the National Anthem and doing fundamental duties enshrined in the Constitution is “absurd” and “childish”. Thanks for betraying the true intentions of the coalition of interests and ideologies to which he is a leader that does not accept and respect Bharat as a nation and Her Constitution,” he said.
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Accusing the chief minister of arrogance, Ravi said children of the nation would not tolerate any insult to the Constitution. “Such arrogance is not good. Please do not forget that Bharat is the supreme Mother and the Constitution is the supreme faith for her children. They will not like or tolerate such brazen insult,” Ravi charged.
The governor’s rebuttal comes a day after Stalin reiterated his “childish” remark against Ravi on Saturday for not reading the governor’s customary address at the beginning of the assembly session. For the third year in a row, Ravi walked out of the Tamil Nadu Assembly without delivering the customary address.
The first assembly session of the year commenced on January 6 and though the governor reached the assembly to deliver his address, he left immediately, upset over not playing the national anthem at the beginning of his speech. As per the custom of the assembly, Tamil Thai Vazhthu is played at the beginning of the speech and national anthem while the governor concludes the address. Governor Ravi said he left the house since did not wish to be “party to such brazen disrespect to the Constitution and the national anthem”.