If ordinance despatched by state authorities targets me, will refer it to Prez: Kerala Governor Arif Khan

By PTI

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan stated that if the ordinance despatched to Raj Bhavan by the CPI(M)-led authorities was meant to focus on him, then he won’t sit in judgement over it and would refer the identical to the President.

Khan, whereas talking to reporters in New Delhi on Saturday night, stated he was but to see the ordinance or undergo it and would take a call solely after that.

“If I am the target, then I shall not be the judge in my own cause. I won’t declare it now. I will see it and if I come to the conclusion that the purpose is to target me, then I shall not sit in judgement (over it). I shall refer (to the President),” he stated.

State Minister for Local Self-Governments and Excise M B Rajesh, in the meantime, stated that the federal government expects the Governor to behave in accordance with the Constitution.

Rajesh, whereas talking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, stated that the state authorities exercised its powers below the Constitution when it got here out with the ordinance and despatched the identical to the Governor.

“It is legal, constitutional and in accordance with the rules. We can now only expect that everyone will act in accordance with the Constitution,” he stated.

Khan reached Delhi on Saturday night, a Raj Bhavan supply stated.

Earlier that day, the Left authorities in Kerala despatched, to the Raj Bhavan, its ordinance to take away the Governor from the put up of Chancellor of universities within the state.

The Kerala cabinet on November 9 had determined to come back out with the ordinance amidst the Left authorities’s ongoing tussle with Khan over functioning of universities, together with appointment of Vice Chancellors, within the state.

The ordinance intends to nominate eminent academicians as Chancellors of the schools within the state instead of the Governor.

The choice of the Pinarayi Vijayan-headed authorities has been opposed by each the Congress and BJP as each events have alleged that the transfer was geared toward turning universities in Kerala into “Communist centres”.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan stated that if the ordinance despatched to Raj Bhavan by the CPI(M)-led authorities was meant to focus on him, then he won’t sit in judgement over it and would refer the identical to the President.

Khan, whereas talking to reporters in New Delhi on Saturday night, stated he was but to see the ordinance or undergo it and would take a call solely after that.

“If I am the target, then I shall not be the judge in my own cause. I won’t declare it now. I will see it and if I come to the conclusion that the purpose is to target me, then I shall not sit in judgement (over it). I shall refer (to the President),” he stated.

State Minister for Local Self-Governments and Excise M B Rajesh, in the meantime, stated that the federal government expects the Governor to behave in accordance with the Constitution.

Rajesh, whereas talking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, stated that the state authorities exercised its powers below the Constitution when it got here out with the ordinance and despatched the identical to the Governor.

“It is legal, constitutional and in accordance with the rules. We can now only expect that everyone will act in accordance with the Constitution,” he stated.

Khan reached Delhi on Saturday night, a Raj Bhavan supply stated.

Earlier that day, the Left authorities in Kerala despatched, to the Raj Bhavan, its ordinance to take away the Governor from the put up of Chancellor of universities within the state.

The Kerala cabinet on November 9 had determined to come back out with the ordinance amidst the Left authorities’s ongoing tussle with Khan over functioning of universities, together with appointment of Vice Chancellors, within the state.

The ordinance intends to nominate eminent academicians as Chancellors of the schools within the state instead of the Governor.

The choice of the Pinarayi Vijayan-headed authorities has been opposed by each the Congress and BJP as each events have alleged that the transfer was geared toward turning universities in Kerala into “Communist centres”.