After a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday said no timeline could be fixed for the President and Governors to act on Bills passed by state legislatures , although “inaction that is prolonged, unexplained and indefinite” by the Governor “will certainly invite limited judicial scrutiny”, a senior DMK leader in Tamil Nadu and Kerala Law Minister P Rajeev welcomed the top court’s opinion to a Presidential Reference. Both states had moved the top court against their governors for sitting on Bills.

The Bench was answering the reference President Droupadi Murmu had made in the wake of a two-judge bench of the court fixing timelines for the President and Governors in its April 8 judgment, while deciding the matter of the Tamil Nadu government challenging the stat

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