The former Governor of Kerala, Arif Mohammed Khan, outside the Thiruvanantanthapuram airport. | Photo credit: Nirmal Harindran
Following the emblematic judgment of the Supreme Court, considering that the bills maintained pending by Tamil Nadu governor, RN Ravi, have received an assent, Kerala will approach the Supreme Court that then monitored a similar relief.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Ravi’s prolonged negative to give the bills approved by Tamil Nadu’s assembly was “illegal” and “erroneous law.”
Kerala had approached the Superior Court before similar acts of former governor Arif Mohammed Khan. He had also transferred the Court against the retention ceremony of President Droupadi Murmu to consent to some bills.
Armed with the last order of the Supreme Court, Kerala would be all the bills that are pending with the president, and those for which he had with the hero’s assistant, would be considered approved since the same act of the governor sitting on them and then referring to them. “
Among the bills that the President has considered the bill of university laws (amendment), 2021; University laws (amendment No. 2) bill, 2021; KERALA COOPERATIVE COMPANIES DRAFT (amendment), 2022; and the bill of university laws (amendment No. 3), 2022, which was sent to it by the governor.
The State would affirm that the principles established by the Superior Court in Tamil Nadu must also be applied to the case of Kerala, and it should be considered that the bills settled on the date on which the higher law were presented to the governor.
The State will also highlight the fact that the President had not assigned reasons to retain consent for bills. The Supreme Court, told legal experts, had made it clear that President Wolde must assign clear and sufficient detailed reasons while retaining the settlement of a bill.
The order of the Supreme Court that sets a time frame for the president and the governors to act in the case of the bills approved by the state legislatures in the case of Tamil Nadu, has occurred as a shot in the arm for the Kerala government. Kerala would argue that applying the guidelines of the Supreme Court framed in the Tamil Nadu case to their own complaints would reveal that the acts of Mr. Khan were also bad and, therefore, possibilities of annulling, the sources said.
In addition, he will also point out that Mr. Khan had sent three bills to the President, who had initially promulgated as ordinances.
Published – April 13, 2025 08:53 PM IST