Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi walked out of the Assembly without delivering the customary address on the opening day of the first session of the year. This is the fourth consecutive year that Ravi has walked out during the opening ceremony.
The governor alleged that the Assembly had disrespected the national anthem and that his mic had been switched off during the proceedings. He left the Assembly a few minutes after the state anthem, Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu, was played.
In Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan edited the policy address delivered by Governor Rajendra Arlekar to the Assembly. After Arlekar left the Assembly, Vijayan told the House to say that the governor had made changes to three paragraphs in the speech.
Among the changes, Arlekar sid that Kerala was facing financial stress arising from “curtailment of advances”. The speech approved by the Cabinet had attributed the stress to “a series of adverse Union government actions that undermine the constitutional principles of fiscal federalism”.
The speaker said that the deletions and additions made by the governor would not go on record. Read on.
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