Overview
- Tamil Nadu filed an Article 32 petition on October 4–5 seeking to quash Governor R. N. Ravi’s July 14 decision reserving the Kalaignar University Bill for the President.
- The State asks the court to direct action under Article 200 in line with cabinet advice, calling the reservation illegal, unconstitutional, and void ab initio.
- The bill, passed earlier this year, would create Kalaignar University in Kumbakonam by bifurcating Bharathidasan University to serve students in Ariyalur, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, and Tiruvarur.
- The Governor also sent a second measure to the President concerning state authority to appoint and remove the sports university vice chancellor.
- The challenge comes as a five-judge bench has reserved its opinion on a Presidential Reference that followed an April 8 ruling setting timelines and outlining a possible deemed-assent remedy.