Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan hit out at Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday, stating that no protocol was observed in the state because the CM had not met her in two years.
The Telangana Governor was reported as saying that “In Telangana, no protocol is followed. The chief minister has not met me for quite a long time. The constitution says that periodic discussions with the administrators — the chief minister with the governor — are necessary but this doesn’t happen in Telangana at all. For two years I have not met the chief minister. Everyone is putting questions on the governors but no one is questioning the chief ministers.”
“There should be a good relationship between the governor and the chief minister but that is totally lacking in Telangana,” the governor alleged.
Soundararajan alleged that state ministers avoid her formal visits and added, “I have acted on all the Bills. I had invited the chief minister on several occasions but he did not come — be it festivals or during the Republic Day celebrations. On official visits, too, no local leader comes, no MLA or MP comes, and the chief minister doesn’t come. A governor should be treated like a governor, there is a standard operating procedure.”
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Reacting to Tamil Nadu Assembly’s decision to pass a Bill allowing 12-hour work in factories, the Telangana governor said, “My opinion is not a political one but research has found that if we increase the working hours optionally, the resting hours can be increased, thereby enhancing the working potential.”
“I don’t want to comment on the resolution passed by another state,” she added.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed the Factories (Amendment) Act 2023 last week, increasing manufacturing workers’ working hours from eight to twelve hours.
The bill would increase the mandatory working hours from 8 hours to 12 hours. Along with the opposition parties, DMK’s ally Congress, Communist Party of India, Marxist Communist Party, Madhyamik Party, Visika and others condemned the Bill and walked out of the Assembly.
Labour Welfare and Skill Development Minister C V Ganesan moved the Bill amid a huge uproar in the Assembly and the Bill was passed through a voice vote.
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