In a further hardening of his position against the State government over the new set of Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Thursday accused the State government of attempting to ‘legalise all illegalities’ and clarified that he was not a mere rubber stamp.
“I have made it repeatedly clear that the Assembly has every right to pass and adopt any measure. But I have a duty to perform and obligation to see that whatever I have been asked to sign is exactly in accordance with the Constitution, its spirit and also the well established conventions, not just in India but all over the world’’, he told media persons on the sidelines of a function at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam.
To a query on the University Laws Amendment Bill, which aims to curtail the power of the Governor in the selection of vice-chancellors, , Mr. Khan stated that he would not allow any attempt to dilute the autonomy of the universities.
