
The tensions between governor and government took a turn this week when Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi walked out of the state assembly on January 9. Ravi had omitted portions of a government-approved speech, Stalin moved a resolution against it, and chaos broke out.
Among other things, Ravi chose to call the state Tamizhagam instead of Tamil Nadu, skipped mentions of the Dravidian model of “good governance”, and skipped references to Ambedkar, Periyar, Annadurai and Kamaraj.