The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to petition the Supreme Court against the “inordinate delay” on the part of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan in giving gubernatorial assent to several laws passed by the State Assembly over the past one-and-a-half years.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Mr. Khan’s defiance of the people’s will harked back to the colonial days when provincial Governors had sweeping discretionary powers. Mr. Khan’s action was anti-Constitutional and against the spirit of parliamentary democracy.
The Cabinet’s decision was the latest development in the government’s protracted political and legal wrangles with the Governor.
