Can't withhold assent & then refer to President — SC asks TN governor to resolve impasse over bills

Ravi, to resolve the impasse with the state government over 10 bills on which he had initially withheld his assent but later referred to the President after the legislative assembly passed them again without any amendments...

A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud gave the suggestion verbally to Attorney General R..

The CJI, who was more vocal, made it clear to the attorney general that under Article 200 of the Constitution, the governor has only three options grant assent, withhold assent to the bill or reserve it to the President...

Authored by CJI Chandrachud, the ruling holds that the governor has to send the bill back to the state assembly once he/she withholds it..

Unlike the office of the President, who holds an elected office and has been conferred with much wider power under the Constitution, the governor as nominee of the Centre must exercise one of the three options in the substantive part of Article 200, the CJI told the AG...

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