Chennai, March 13 (BPNS)

Member of Parliament and firebrand leader of MDMK, Vaiko has called upon the removal of Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi from the post. In a statement on Sunday, the MDMK leader who is often equated with Tamil nationalism said that the Governor’s inaugural address at the South Indian Vice-Chancellors conference that India was not a ‘contractual union’ unlike the United States but an organic one, was highly deplorable.

He said that the Tamil Nadu Governor had exceeded his brief.

Vaiko said,” The Governor has gone beyond his powers making such statements and spoke about political views that are highly condemnable”.

The senior leader said that the Governor was putting across the political viewpoint of the RSS and Sangh Parivar and his big bosses in New Delhi.

The MDMK leader said that before the advent of Britishers, India had 565 small kingdoms which was the actual history, and added that even during the Mughal rule Tamil Nadu was never under the rule of North Indian rulers.

He said that Governors were creating roadblocks in the functioning of elected Governments and cited the example of former Tamil Nadu Governor Bhanwarilal Purohit who is the present Governor of Punjab as well as the Governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankar who was constantly creating problems for the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee.

He also said that the current Tamil Nadu Governor had disrespected the state assembly by returning the Bill seeking exemption from NEET and said that there was no reason as to why R.N. Ravi should continue even for one day as Governor of Tamil Nadu.