Chennai: It was after Governor R N Ravi referred to the President of India 10 bills re-enacted by the Tamil Nadu Assembly that the DMK dispensation knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court seeking to declare as “unconstitutional” his actions of indefinitely sitting on bills.

This was not the first time that the Government complained against the Governor before the apex court. In December 2023, the SC asked both the Chief Minister and Governor to meet to iron out differences between the two institutions but the meeting on December 30, 2023 did not make much headway.

What prompted the government to approach the Supreme Court against the Governor once again was his actions in early 2024.

He had on November 10, 2023 withheld assent to 10 bills passed by the Assembly between 2020 and 2023 a

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