CHENNAI: Days after the Supreme Court expressed 'serious concern' over governors' inaction on Bills, Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi returned ten pending bills to the Assembly on Thursday.

The Supreme Cout on November 10, Friday, while hearing a plea filed by the Tamil Nadu Government, expressed "serious concern" over the delay by governors in giving assent to the bills passed by the state assemblies.

Two of the ten bills returned by Governor Ravi were passed by the previous AIADMK government.

Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu Speaker M Appavu called for a special session on Saturday in which it is expected that the ruling DMK will readopt the returned bills and send them again for approval from the Governor.

The Governor is constitutionally obligated to sign bills into law once they are re-passed by the legislative assembly.

The Governor of Tamil Nadu has yielded to the Constitution and the Supreme Court and returned the bills at a time when the Supreme Court is considering the complaint filed by the Kerala government against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan for withholding bills passed by the Kerala assembly.