Presidential Reference: T.N. CM Stalin to carry dialogue with CMs of different States

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin meets the general public earlier than leaving for Mettupalayam from Udhagamandalam, after his four-day tour of the Nilgiris.
| Picture Credit score: M. Sathyamoorthy

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin mentioned he would maintain discussions with Chief Ministers of different States and determine on a plan of action, following President Droupadi Murmu’s Presidential Reference to the Supreme Court docket on its verdict delivered in opposition to Governor R.N. Ravi.

Talking in Udhagamandalam on Friday (Might 16, 2025), Mr. Stalin mentioned he had already given an in depth response to the Central authorities’s “overreach” on Thursday (Might 15, 2025), and added he was assured that the DMK would win the 2026 Meeting elections within the State.

“Not solely in 2026, however in 2031 and 2036 too the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Dravida mannequin authorities would proceed to be in energy,” he mentioned.

Just lately, Ms. Murmu, in a Presidential Reference to the highest court docket relating to its verdict within the Tamil Nadu authorities’s case in opposition to Mr. Ravi, had requested whether or not, within the absence of any constitutionally prescribed time restrict or method of train of powers by a Governor, such closing dates and method of train might be prescribed by way of judicial orders.

Strongly condmening the transfer, Mr. Stalin on Thursday mentioned this it was a determined try to weaken democratically elected State governments by putting them underneath the management of Governors “serving as brokers of the Union authorities.”

Broadly, the Might 13, 2025 Reference requested whether or not judicial orders may dictate the timeframe and method through which the President and Governors ought to act underneath Articles 200 and 201 of the Structure — the provisions governing the grant of assent by Governors to State Payments, and the reservation of Payments by Governors for Presidential assent, respectively.

The President’s transfer to hunt readability underneath the apex court docket’s advisory jurisdiction arose from an April 8, 2025 judgment of a Supreme Court docket Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan, in a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu authorities, difficult the Governor’s delay in clearing 10 re-passed Payments, and his subsequent motion to order them for consideration by the President.

The judgment had held the Governor’s motion unlawful. This had led to the default cancellation of the President’s choice to grant assent to one of many 10 Payments, whereas rejecting seven and never contemplating two others.