Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Thursday filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court against Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan for not giving his assent to ten government bills. The state government urged the apex court to direct the governor to give his assent to the pending bills.
“is constrained to move before this Hon’ble Court under its extraordinary jurisdiction conferred under Article 32 of the Constitution of India in view of the constitutional impasse arising out of the refusal of the Governor of the State of Telangana to act on several Bills passed by the State Legislature These Bills are pending for assent of the Governor from 14th September 2022,” the state government’s plea said. The matter is likely to come up for hearing on Friday.
The State Government has made the Secretary to the Governor a respondent.
The “Telangana State Private Universities (Establishment and Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2022” is among the ten government bills pending with the Raj Bhavan. The state is planning to recruit around 2,000 lecturers in various universities. However, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has did not give his assent to any of these Bills pending from September 2022.
The state government’s plea states: “It is respectfully submitted that the Constitution cannot be kept static in the matter of legislative business of the State and keeping the Bills pending without any valid reason leads to anarchic situation and anarchy”. nothing short of generating. In all fairness, the Hon’ble Governor should have acted in discharge of the constitutional mandate of assent to the Bills contemplated under the Constitutional Scheme. To resort to any step other than assent to the Bills There is no justifiable reason for all Bills conforming to the constitutional mandate as to legislative competence or otherwise”.
The State Government further argued that the matter is of unprecedented importance and any further delay may lead to a very unpleasant situation, ultimately affecting governance and resulting in huge inconvenience to the general public.
The State Government prayed that the Court may be pleased to declare in the interest of justice that the inaction, omission, and failure to comply with the constitutional mandate by way of assent to the Bills by the constitutional functionary, the Governor, is highly irregular, illegal, and unconstitutional. Issuance of a writ of mandamus or a writ in the nature of a mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to the Governor for immediate assent to the pending Bills against and consequential to the mandate.
