{"id":276743,"date":"2025-04-08T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/big-win-for-stalin-govt-sc-raps-tn-governor-says-holding-bills-for-presidents-assent-illegal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:33:10","slug":"big-win-for-stalin-govt-sc-raps-tn-governor-says-holding-bills-for-presidents-assent-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/big-win-for-stalin-govt-sc-raps-tn-governor-says-holding-bills-for-presidents-assent-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Big win for Stalin govt: SC raps TN Governor, says holding bills for President&#8217;s assent &#8216;illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Big win for Stalin govt: SC raps TN Governor, says holding bills for President&#8217;s assent &#8216;illegal&#8217;\" title=\"Big win for Stalin govt: SC raps TN Governor, says holding bills for President&#8217;s assent &#8216;illegal&#8217;\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"17\">In a significant verdict backing the MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Governor\u2019s move to reserve 10 state bills for the President\u2019s assent was \u201cillegal, erroneous in law, and liable to be set aside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->The apex court underlined that the Governor is constitutionally bound to act on the aid and advice of the State Legislature. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said that under Article 200 of the Constitution, the governor does not possess any discretion and has to mandatorily act on the aid and advice of the council of ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Article 200 of the Constitution deals with assent to Bills.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said the governor cannot withhold assent and adopt concept of absolute veto or pocket veto.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1--><br \/>It said the governor is obligated to adopt one course of action &#8212; give assent to Bills, withhold assent and reserve for consideration of the president.The bench said it was not open for the governor to reserve Bill for consideration of the president after it was presented to him for the second time.It said the governor must assent to the Bills produced before him in the second round and the only exception is in case the Bill in the second round is different from the first one.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment came in response to a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government against Governor RN Ravi\u2019s delay in granting assent to bills duly passed by the State Assembly.<a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ANI\/status\/1909481753116627260\/photo\/1\" class=\"css-175oi2r r-1pi2tsx r-1ny4l3l r-1loqt21\" rel=\"nofollow\"\/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/sc-raps-tn-governor-says-holding-bills-for-presidents-assent-illegal\/articleshow\/120085640.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant verdict backing the MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Governor\u2019s move to reserve 10 state bills for the President\u2019s assent was \u201cillegal, erroneous in law, and liable to be set aside.\u201d The apex court underlined that the Governor is constitutionally bound to act on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[213825,38432,995,14757,324,3056,8584,4406,213824,19519,39782,11392,37918,101402,1460],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276745,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276743\/revisions\/276745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}