"Illegal": Kerala Government Takes Governor To Supreme Court In Bills Row
NDTV
Eight bills are pending for approval by Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, three of which have been on his desk for two years.
The Kerala government on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to direct Governor Arif Mohammed Khan to clear bills passed by the legislature in a timely manner, as the long stand-off between the two over eight bills - three of which have been pending for over two years - reaches the highest court in the land.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's government has sought "appropriate orders from the Honourable Court in relation to inaction on the part of the Honourable Governor in relation to as many as eight bills", according to the petition filed before the top court.
In its petition the Kerala government said "the Governor is bound to dispose of every bill presented to within a reasonable time, which, considering the democratic process and the needs of the people to have welfare measures and other laws affecting public interest, menas to be disposed of forthwith..." The petition said the Governor had, therefore, "failed in the exercise of his constitutional powers and duties".
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Petitioner-in-person Harvinder Chowdhury informed the bench she would consolidate her suggestions as well as the suggestions of other parties in the matter and file a short compilation.
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