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R.L. Bhatia THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The outgoing Governor Raghunanthan Lal Bhatia was a stickler for legal niceties and propriety demanded by his office. Though he was a Congress leader and Congress nominee, one of his first acts after becoming the Governor of the State on June 23, 2004, was to refuse assent to an ordinance proposed by the A.K. Antony government. Mr. Bhatia found that some of the provisions of the Kerala Self-financing Professional Colleges (Prohibition of Capitation Fees and Procedure for Admission and Fixation of Fees) Ordinance went against the orders of the Supreme Court and directed the government to get the legislation passed in the Assembly. He gave assent only after the corresponding Bill was passed by the Assembly. (Subsequently, the Supreme Court nullified several provisions of the Act). He continued on the same vein after the present (LDF) government came to power. He refused to sign the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor of Kerala Agricultural University in his capacity as the Chancellor of the university. The government had to issue the order on its own, possibly in violation of the university Act, as Mr. Bhatia was adamant. Mr. Bhatia apparently felt that none on the panel submitted to him was qualified for the post. Just a few months ago, he withheld assent to the Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, for entrusting some of the appointments of the Devaswom boards to the Public Service Commission, on complaints from Hindu organisations. However, he allowed the ordinance to go through after the government explained the legality of the ordinance. Mr. Bhatia’s appointment as Governor of the State came months after he was here for settling some of the inner-party issues in the State unit of the Congress. Unlike several other Governors, Mr. Bhatia was very choosy about the functions he attended.
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