DC Edit | Governor’s action exposes hostile Centre-state ties
Deccan ChronicleTamil Nadu governor Ravindra Narayana Ravi leaving the packed Assembly Hall in a huff even as chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin was addressing the House on Monday was a shocking visual that an entire nation watched with trepidation. While many blamed it squarely on the governor who deliberately skipped passages, phrases and words in the address prepared for him to read out to the Assembly as it met for the first time in the New Year, the opposing camp cited a convention that when the governor was in the House nobody else should speak. The PMK, which is not an ally of the DMK but part of the BJP-led NDA, was particularly sour that a legislation banning online gambling that had been causing too many deaths by suicide in the state was also part of the bunch lying with the governor for too long. But not many openly pointed out that the drama was a fallout of a Union government gameplan to pit hostile governors against elected non-BJP state governments, which in fact is the real threat to democracy.
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