VB Ganesan
PROTESTING against the governor’s steadfast propagation of obscurantist ideas on various platforms across the state and consistent disregard for constitutional ethos, the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu state committee organised a gherao of Raj Bhavan at Chennai on January 20.
The meeting organised at the gherao site was presided over by K Balakrishnan, state secretary of CPI(M). Polit Bureau member G Ramakrishnan, Central Committee members P Sampath, U Vasuki and P Shanmugam, Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan, MLA M Chinnadurai and thousands of Party cadres had converged before Raj Bhavan and raised slogans against the divisive actions of RN Ravi, governor of Tamil Nadu.
It is to be pointed out that the governor, transgressing his constitutional limits, has been proclaiming several ideas inimical to the policies and ethos of the state. He kept 21 vital bills duly passed by the state legislature pending without any overt reason. He has been conducting himself within the precincts of the state legislature in clear contravention of the duties as a governor. Above all, he has been misusing his post to propagate regressive and irrelevant ideas in order to side-track burning issues like the National Education Policy, federalism etc.
Most recently during Pongal, he refused to use the official name and emblem of Tamil Nadu in his invitation. Such grotesque acts of his further infuriated the people.
Condemning such pernicious acts of the governor, thousands of protestors, led by the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu state committee, have called for a gherao programme of Raj Bhavan, demanding his immediate recall from the post of governor of Tamil Nadu.
