AIADMK general secretary and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday questioned the need to convene a special session of the Assembly to readopt the Bills for which the Governor had withheld assent when the State government was already fighting a case on the issue in the Supreme Court.
Speaking in the Assembly on the resolution moved by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for reconsidering the Bills, he said the readoption of the Bills should not affect the legal battle. He said the State government could have waited for a favourable decision from the Supreme Court instead of urgently convening the Assembly.
The Leader of the House and Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan said Governor R.N. Ravi, who was sitting on the Bills for several months, communicated his decision of withholding assent only after the State government approached the Supreme Court. He said the Government wanted to swiftly readopt the Bills and send it back to Raj Bhavan since it did not want the Governor to claim before the Supreme Court that the Bills were not pending with him when the case comes up for hearing again in a couple of days. He said the Governor now had no other choice, but to grant assent to these Bills.
