Thiruvananthapuram – Legal advice to send bills to the President to remove the governor from the post of chancellor of universities. Raj Bhavan’s legal advisor Gopakumaran Nair provided legal advice. The legal advice is not to take decisions on your own in matters affecting the Governor. If the bill is sent to the President, the decision will be delayed. With this, the government’s move to remove the governor from the post of chancellor may not see any immediate results.
Governor Arif Muhammad Khan approved 17 bills passed in the last legislative session, except for two bills that remove the governor from the post of chancellor. The position of the governor was that the chancellor’s bill affects the governor and let those above him decide. The governor had already indicated that he would send the bill to the President. The two bills are to remove the governor from the post of chancellor of 14 universities and replace him with experts in various fields.
English Summary: The key bill to remove the Governor from Chancellor of Universities is to be sent to Rashtrapati