 The opposition parties in the country have been accusing the governors of acting like roadblocks for governance in the non-BJP ruled states. In Tamil Nadu, the M.K. Stalin led Dravidamuneta Karagam and its alliance partners, including the left, allege that the governor Aarand Ravi is violating constitutional mandates and speaking against parallelism. Considering the inordinate delay in providing assent to the bills, the state assembly even passed a resolution urging the union government to set a timeframe for providing assent to the bills. In addition, the public speeches of Aarand Ravi, made in favor of RSS ideologies, including his support for Sanatana Dhamma, continued to spark controversies. Newsclick spoke to Mr. K. Balakrishnan, the state secretary of Communist Party of India Marxist, in this regard. The BJP government is nominating the governor of their own party leaders and by using that governors in non-BJP ruled states, they want to create problems and they want to have an alternative government under the leadership of governors. So many governors in non-BJP ruled states are behaving very rudely and they are not functioning according to the constitution. The governor is nominated by the president according to the constitution. They must function according to the constitution. They are taking both on the basis of the constitution. But in practice, they are violating all the norms and rules and regulations and also basically violating the constitutional provisions. For example, in Tamil Nadu, Aarand Ravi has been an IPS officer, was nominated as the governor of Tamil Nadu. After some time, after some months, he is taking, he is always creating problems to the state government, not only state government, he is always speaking in public media, in public speeches against the constitution, against the secularism, against the tradition of Tamil people, against Thirukural, some days before. He criticized Karl Marx himself. As a governor, he has got no business with Karl Marx, the ideology. Aarand Ravi is a governor, he has got no right to criticize Karl Marx, that too. Marxism has disintegrated India and Marxism is playing a negative role in development in India. So by saying this, by these activities, he wants to be an RSS follower. At one time, he says that in the world, no country is adopting the secularist principle. Every country is on religious country. So in the world, there is no secularist country. But in practice, so many countries, more than 80 percent of the countries are adopting the secularist norms. These kind of news and such, these kind of speeches is always making, directly or indirectly, is functioning as their RSS cadre. Most of the secular parties who are functioning in Tamil Nadu are fighting against the governor. Each and every day, we have to fight against him. As a governor for the past one year, he has not given an accent to the bills adopted in the assembly. Nearly 14 bills are kept abeyance. Even the need of a bill, which was passed unanimously by the assembly, was kept in abeyance by the governor. And now he has said that we have sent to the president's office. In such a way, he is behaving against the rules and regulations, against the constitution. For example, the online Rummy prohibition bill, which was adopted by the state government. Earlier, an ordinance was promulgated. Governor Aaron Ravi, he gave an accent to the ordinance. But the ordinance, after some time, it was adopted, passed as a bill, which was sent to the governor. He has not given an accent to the bill. He kept it for a long time. So many months delay, he returned the bill to the state government and asked the state government whether the state government has got power to enact such a bill. So saying that command, he returned the bill to the assembly. Immediately within 24 hours, our state government, under the leadership of Stalin, immediately passed the same bill and sent to the governor. Even after the passing of that bill, he has not given the accent. Actually according to the constitution, governor can do only three things on the bills sent by the state government. First is he can give an accent. Second is he can forward to the president. Third, he can return to the state government. But he is scripting the bill for some months. So the governor has got no right to keep the bill in abeyles for a long time. And he has got no right to reject it. According to the constitution, when the bill was second time adopted and sent to the approval, the governor must give the accent to the bill, whatever the bill says. This is the constitutional provision, but he is violating all these norms. So in the assembly, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has passed a resolution sent to the government that the government of India and president should formulate some norms that all the bills sent to the governor should be treated within a span of time. That is within a span of time, he must have taken decision. Without taking decision, he cannot keep it for a long time in abeyles. That's what the bill is the main aim. He has asked the president and the government of India to advise the prime governor to function according to the constitution. He's always creating so many problems violating the constitution. So the bill was passed in the assembly. After the bill was passed in the morning, suddenly in the evening, governor gave the accent to the online Rummy prohibition bill. So why the governor should have given the accent some four or five months earlier? If he gave the five months earlier, many, many lives would have been saved. More than 50, 60 people got suicide because of the online Rummy. Thousands of people have lost so many crores, so many thousand lakhs of rupees in online Rummy. Finally, after passing the resolution, the governor has given the accent to the bill. Malakrishnan claimed that several non-BJP ruled states including Kerala, Bihar, Jharkhand and Telangana are facing similar hurdles from the respective governors. Not only here, in all other BJP, non-ruled BJP states, the governor is creating nuisances, creating problems to the elected state governments. This is not the way of democracy. The state has got some powers. But using the governors, the central government is restricting the powers of the state government. This is not good for the country, this is not good for the democracy. So the central government or the president should give guidance to all the governors that they must function according to the constitution. But instead, they want to intervene, they want to give disturbance, they want to make politics by using the governor. Moreover, the governors are functioning under the guidance of the RSS and they are openly campaigning for the RSS. This is quite against the interests of the country. This is quite anti-national activities. This kind of practices should not be allowed.