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By Shilpa Nair: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called her Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin on Wednesday and expressed solidarity with the ruling DMK for its initiatives against the ‘undemocratic functioning” of governors in non-BJP states.
The Tamil Nadu CM said Banerjee had suggested that chief ministers of all opposition-ruled states meet to decide the next course of action.
“Hon WB CM @MamataOfficial spoke to me over phone to express her solidarity & admiration for our initiatives against the undemocratic functioning of Governors in non-BJP ruled states & suggested that all the Opposition CMs meet to decide the next course of action,” Stalin said in a tweet.
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The Tamil Nadu Assembly had recently adopted a resolution seeking to fix a timeframe for governors to give their nod to state Bills and Stalin had written to CMs of non-BJP dispensations to do the same in their respective states.
In his letter, Stalin claimed that Indian democracy today “stands at crossroads” and that “we are increasingly witnessing the fading away of cooperative federalism”.
Before Mamata Banerjee, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan discussed the issue with Stalin.
While Kejriwal said his government will do so in the next Assembly session, Vijayan said his government will consider Stalin’s proposal with “utmost seriousness.”
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