Former Governor Keraly Arif Mohammed Khan outside Thiruvananthapuram airport. | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran
Following the Milestone judgment of the Supreme Court, which considered the accounts that were constantly waiting for the Governor of Tamil Nadu RN Ravi to receive consent, Kerala would approach the Supreme Court next month and seek similar relief.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the prolonged rejection of Mr. Ravi to present consent to the accounts approved by the Assembly of Tamil Nadu was “unlawful” and “erroneous by law”.
Kerala previously turned to the Supreme Court against similar acts of former Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. It also shifted the court against the act of President Droubadi Murmu to withdraw with several accounts.
Kerala, armed with the latest Supreme Court order, would claim that all the accounts waiting for the president, and those for whom she had arrested consent, would be considered approved from the actual act of the Governor and later ceded them to the President “erroneous by law”.
Among the accounts that the President has detained is the University Act (amendment), 2021; University laws (amendment No. 2) Bill, 2021; Kerala Co-Operative Society (Domenement) Bill, 2022; and university laws (amendment No. 3) Bill, 2022, which was resigned by the governor.
The state would claim that the principles set by the Supreme Court in the case of Tamil Nadu should be applied to the case of Keraral and the proposals should be considered as judges on the date where the Governor was submitted, the highest lawyers said.
The state will also emphasize the fact that the President has not provided any reasons for deduction of consent to accounts. The Supreme Court, pointed out to legal experts, explained that the president would have to assign clear and sufficiently detailed reasons and at the same time to withhold the consent of the law.
The order of the Supreme Court, which set a time framework for the President and Governors to act in the case of proposals by laws that the state lawmakers in the case of Tamil Nadu came as a shot in the arm for the government of Keral. Kerala would argue that the application of the instructions of the Supreme Court framed in the case of Tamil Nadu to its own complaints would show that Mr. Khan’s actions were also bad, and therefore it would be necessary to cancel, sources said.
He will also point out that Mr. Khan has advanced three accounts to the president, which he originally declared as a regulation.
Published – April 13, 2025 20:53
