Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan lashes out at Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
The Hindu
Arif Mohammed Khan dropped ample hints that he would not sign into law the University Laws (Amendment) Act, 2022 and the Kerala Lok Ayukta (Amendment) Act, 2022.
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's private secretary K. K. Rajesh, ex-MP, of preventing the police from arresting those who heckled him at the venue of the Indian History Congress (IHC) in Kannur University in 2019.
Breaking with conventionalities, Mr. Khan held a nearly two-hour press conference at the Raj Bhavan to circulate a litany of charges against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government and the "idealogy of violence" that informed the ruling party.
He said the government's use of intimidation to coerce the governor to assent to the administration's erroneous decisions had constrained him to reach out to the public via the media.
During the protracted media interaction, Mr. Khan dropped ample hints that he would not sign into law the University Laws (Amendment) Act, 2022 and the Kerala Lok Ayukta (Amendment) Act, 2022.
“I will not allow the government to infringe on the autonomy of universities. I will not let the political executive sit in judgement of its own cause. The legislation seeks to vest the government with the overriding appellate authority to circumvent any adverse and incriminating declaration by the Lok Ayukta, the constitutional anti-corruption watchdog. Such a law runs against the grain of natural justice and jurisprudence,” Mr. Khan said.
Screening video footage and circulating government communications to back his charges, Mr. Khan said Mr. Vijayan had inducted Mr. Ragesh into his personal staff as a reward for restraining the police from arresting those who "conspired to harm" him at the (IHC) venue.
The government also lobbied to appoint Mr. Ragesh's wife as faculty in Kannur varsity's Malayalam department. (The governor had stayed the appointment on nepotism charges.)
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