Kochi (Kerala): The tiff between the Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Kerala legislature took a turn for the worse on Saturday when the Congress-led opposition gave notice to the Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan for moving a resolution to be sent to President of India to remove Arif Mohammed Khan from the post of governor.
Khan was quick to respond and welcomed the move.
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Speaking to the media here, Leader of opposition Ramesh Chennithala said that he has written to the Speaker under the rules of the Legislature under Section 284 (5) to move a substantive motion to see that a resolution is passed by the legislature and send it to the President of India to withdraw Khan from the post of governor.
The new session of the Kerala Assembly is slated to begin on Wednesday. 'The reason why we are moving this against the present governor is he has deplored the assembly when resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed. Governor is very much part of the Assembly, but he has condemned what we did. This is a clear disrespect to the assembly and hence we are bringing in the substantive motion,' said Chennithala.
Chennithala added that this is the first time in the history of the Assembly, that such a motion is being moved.
'What Khan should have done was to have expressed his displeasure against the CAA resolution in writing to the Speaker, instead, he has gone public. The previous governor P. Sathasivam, who was a former chief justice of India during his tenure never ever met the media, but for Khan, it has become a habit for him to air everything in public. This does not befit the post that he holds and Sathasivam even expressed surprise in what was happening,' added Chennithala.