T'PURAM: CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran expressed his deep dissatisfaction after the government shifted a top bureaucrat in order to pacify the governor who had allegedly refused to sign the policy address speech that would mark the beginning of the current assembly session.
"The governor can express his difference of opinion on the policy address or he is obliged to approve and read it. But the governor shouldn't have resorted to such cheap bargaining tactics with the government," said Rajendran.
The governor is duty bound to address the assembly and accept the speech, which has been approved by the cabinet. He cannot refuse it. The governor should not have used his constitutional rights for a cheap bargaining and the government should not have yielded to his demands, he said adding, "I do not think that whatever is happening in Raj Bhavan is good for the state."
CPI's mouthpiece 'Janayugom' also flayed the governor in an article published on Friday. It said that whatever the governor had done on Thursday by not agreeing to sing the policy address, which was to be read out in the assembly, was unconstitutional.
Minister K Radhakrishnan, who is in charge of parliamentary affairs, said those who are bound to obey certain constitutional rights should not have behaved in this way.tnn
