Jaipur (Rajasthan): A city-based lawyer has filed a petition in the Rajasthan High Court seeking directions to the central government to advise the President to remove Governor Kalraj Mishra.
The petition comes amid a power tussle in the state.
The petitioner, Shantanu Pareek, claimed that the governor had failed to fulfil his constitutional obligations by not calling a session of the Assembly as recommended by the state cabinet.
The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government, which is facing a political crisis after a rebellion by the now sacked deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and 18 other dissident MLAs, says it wants to hold an Assembly session and has forwarded its recommendations to the governor.
Governor Mishra has returned the cabinet recommendations for calling an Assembly session twice with queries and suggestions to the state government.
Meanwhile, the Rajasthan Congress Legislature Party (CLP) also sent a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking his intervention for convening the state assembly session.
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Arguing that the Governor is bound by the Constitution to act on the advice of the council of ministers in calling the session, the Congress accused him of acting at the Central government's behest.
The Congress government in Rajasthan is facing a crisis ever since Sachin Pilot and 18 other MLAs revolted against it own state government led by Chief Minister Gehlot.
The Congress plans to fight the issue politically and not in courts. Rajasthan Speaker withdrew its petition before the Supreme Court challenging the earlier order of the state High Court asking him to defer till July 24 the disqualification proceedings against sacked deputy chief minister Pilot and 18 dissident Congress MLAs.
(With inputs from PTI)
