DMK asks Governor to nullify February 18 Assembly proceedings

DMK working president MK Stalin told media persons at the party headquarters on Sunday that they have sought the President’s appointment to petition about the unconstitutional way the confidence motion was passed on Saturday by Speaker P Dhanapal after evicting the Opposition party members, who account for a third of the House. Stalin has also threatened to move the court challenging the constitutionality of the vote of confidence. 

Meanwhile, in his representation made to the Governor through party Rajya Sabha MPs, Stalin has recalled at length the run up to the confidence motion and melee in the House and ‘earnestly appealed to the Governor to kindly weigh the proceedings on the floor of the state Assembly on Friday, focussing on the declaration of the Speaker that the confidence motion moved by Edappadi K Palanisami was adopted in the absence of the members of all the Opposition parties.”

He urged the Governor to invoke his constitutional powers to nullify the entire proceedings with a view to protect the spirit of democracy of the Constitution. Later in the day, Stalin, slammed the conduct of the Speaker and described Palanisami as ‘benomi CM’. 

Meanwhile, in another statement on Sunday, Stalin disapproved of the act of some his party legislators sitting in the chair of Speaker P Dhanapal in the Assembly.