NEW DELHI: The MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu Government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against Governor R N Ravi over the alleged delay in clearing bills and government orders sent by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and Government.

In the petition, the Tamil Nadu government alleged that the governor was behaving like a political opponent against the state government.

"The present Writ Petition is being filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, to declare that the inaction, omission, delay and failure to comply with the constitutional mandate by the Governor of Tamil Nadu and assent of the Bills passed and forwarded by the Tamil Nadu State Legislature to him and the non-consideration of files, Government orders and policies forwarded for his signature is unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable besides malafide exercise of power," the petition said.

In the writ petition, the Tamil Nadu government listed out the 12 Bills which are pending with the Governor, despite the lapse of considerable time.

The petition has added files which are all pending with the Governor pertaining to the accord of sanction for prosecution and investigation of various crimes of corruption involving moral turpitude of public servants and files about the premature release of prisoners.

"The Governor by not signing remission orders, day-to-day files, appointment orders, approving recruitment orders, granting approval to prosecute Ministers, MLAs involved in corruption including transfer of investigation to CBI by Supreme Court, Bills passed by Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is bringing the entire administration to a grinding halt and creating adversarial attitude by not cooperating with the State administration," the petition further stated.

The governor has withheld 12 bills passed by the assembly since 2020 without taking a decision. Apart from this, the Governor is yet to decide on the files regarding the release of 54 prisoners.

The petition seeks a direction to the Governor to clear Bills and files and Government orders within a specified timeframe.