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‘BJP utilizing governors as karyakartas’, says Congress chief amid TN Guv row

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By PTI

NEW DELHI: Amid a tussle between the DMK-led authorities and Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the BJP of utilizing governors as ‘karyakartas’ (social gathering employees) and mentioned that the “brazen overstepping of the Constitution” by just a few of them lately has sullied federal construction of Indian polity.

Ravi had a face-off with the state authorities within the Assembly the place Chief Minister M Okay Stalin, additionally president of the ruling DMK, piloted a decision towards the Governor’s deviation from his customary tackle to the home.

Following the face-off, the governor staged an unprecedented walkout from the meeting.

“BJP’s deliberate design to denigrate the Constitutional office of Governors by using them as ‘karyakartas’, in states ruled by the opposition is an assault on Democracy. Brazen overstepping of the Constitution by a few Governors recently has sullied the federal structure of our polity,” Kharge mentioned in a tweet.

“Governors have to function within the framework of the Constitution and cannot insult the Legislature of which they are a part of. But they are being manipulated by their Delhi masters to create social and political unrest in states ruled by parties other than BJP which is dangerous,” the Congress president alleged.

Governors should perform inside framework of Constitution and can’t insult the Legislature of which they’re part of.

But they’re being manipulated by their Delhi masters to create social & political unrest in States dominated by events apart from BJP which is harmful.

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— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) January 11, 2023

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NEW DELHI: Amid a tussle between the DMK-led authorities and Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the BJP of utilizing governors as ‘karyakartas’ (social gathering employees) and mentioned that the “brazen overstepping of the Constitution” by just a few of them lately has sullied federal construction of Indian polity.

Ravi had a face-off with the state authorities within the Assembly the place Chief Minister M Okay Stalin, additionally president of the ruling DMK, piloted a decision towards the Governor’s deviation from his customary tackle to the home.

Following the face-off, the governor staged an unprecedented walkout from the meeting.

“BJP’s deliberate design to denigrate the Constitutional office of Governors by using them as ‘karyakartas’, in states ruled by the opposition is an assault on Democracy. Brazen overstepping of the Constitution by a few Governors recently has sullied the federal structure of our polity,” Kharge mentioned in a tweet.

“Governors have to function within the framework of the Constitution and cannot insult the Legislature of which they are a part of. But they are being manipulated by their Delhi masters to create social and political unrest in states ruled by parties other than BJP which is dangerous,” the Congress president alleged.

Governors should perform inside framework of Constitution and can’t insult the Legislature of which they’re part of.
But they’re being manipulated by their Delhi masters to create social & political unrest in States dominated by events apart from BJP which is harmful.
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— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) January 11, 2023
ALSO READ | TN Governor’s ‘visitor’ recorded Assembly proceedings, matter goes to Privileges panel