Stalin Condemns Centre for Using Presidential Reference on Governors' Deadlines

CHIEF Minister M K Stalin on Thursday strongly condemned the BJP-led Union government for using the Presidential reference route to seek the Supreme Court's opinion on deadlines fixed by the court for governors and the President to decide on bills.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai

The move revealed the centre's "sinister intent", he said.

President Droupadi Murmu has posed 14 questions to the SC under Article 143(1), including one on the exercise of plenary power by the SC under Article 142 to re-present the bills to the Tamil Nadu governor as deemed to have been passed.

The CM said the Union government's Presidential reference to the SC attempts to subvert the constitutional position already settled by the top court in its April 8 verdict in the Tamil Nadu governor's case and other precedents set by the court.