Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Monday, February 12, 2024 unanimously passed a resolution to take on record only the speech prepared by the State government for Governor R.N. Ravi for his inaugural customary address for 2024 and not his shortened speech and the remarks citing reasons for his refusal to read the entire speech.
Leader of the House Duraimurugan proposed the resolution by requesting to relax Rule 17 of the Assembly, which dealt with observance of order by members of the House during Governor’s address under article 175 or 176 of the Constitution, after Speaker M. Appavu finished reading the Tamil version of the prepared speech.
Mr. Ravi, who was being updated about the proceedings in Tamil by his Secretary R. Kirlosh Kumar, left the House before Mr. Duraimurugan read out the resolution. The resolution said the speech prepared for this inaugural address and presented to the members in Tamil and English be taken on Assembly’s records.
