Telangana govt. moves SC as Governor delays nod to Bills
The State government says it is constrained to move the top court under its extraordinary jurisdiction conferred under Article 32.
State says several Bills passed by two Houses of the State Legislature have been pending since September 14, 2022; takes legal recourse for resolving its grievance against institution of Governor
M. RAJEEV HYDERABAD
The Telangana government has taken legal recourse for resolving its grievance against the delays in clearance of important Bills, passed by two Houses of the State Legislature, by the institution of the Governor.
The government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court claiming that the Telangana government is constrained to move before the court under its extraordinary jurisdiction conferred under Article 32 of the Constitution of India in view of “a very prequent constitutional impasse created on account of the refusal of the Governor to act on several Bills passed by the State Legislature. These Bills are pending since September 14, 2022 till date for the assent of the Governor”, the government said in its petition for which the Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has been made a respondent.
The government in its petition attached copies of the Bills and the list of dates on which the Bills were passed by the Legislature.
The government has quoted Article 200 of the Constitution which mandates that the Governor could assent or could withhold assent in which case the Bill should be returned together with the message requesting that the Houses reconsider the Bill for any specified provision and would consider the desirability of introducing any such amendments as it might recommend in the message. By virtue of Article 163, the Governor was required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion only on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister as its head.
“The Governor is not expected to act independently and this position has been made amply clear by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Shamsher Singh Vs State of Punjab (1974)”, the government said.
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