The Telangana government on March 2 moved the Supreme Court challenging Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan’s refusal to act on 10 bills, passed by the state’s Legislature, pending for approval before her. https://scroll.in/article/1046106/pocket-vetoed-governors-are-sitting-on-bills-and-undermining-federalism
All bills passed by a state’s Legislature become laws only upon receiving the governor’s assent. Article 200 of the Constitution gives governors the power to either grant assent to a bill, reject it or reserve it for the president’s consideration in certain cases.
While rejecting the bill, the governor may suggest amendments. However, the legislature is not obligated to accept these suggestions and can pass the bill again in its original form for the governor’s approval. On this occasion, the governor must either give assent or reserve it for the president’s consideration.
However, by not prescribing a timeframe within which the governors must take a decision the Constitution has provided a loophole for governors to delay legislation – a manoeuvre sometimes called a pocket veto.
26/03/2023