Thiruvananthapuram: CPM state secretary M V Govindan said Arif Mohammed Khan was now the caretaker governor of Kerala.
Around the same time Governor Khan spoke to mediapersons at a public place in Thiruvananthapuram, Govindan delivered a press conference at the AKG Centre.
“He is actually just a caretaker governor,” Govindan said. “On September 5, his five-year term ended. As per article 156 (3) of the Indian Constitution, he is continuing in a caretaker role until a replacement arrives.”
Govindan claimed that it was on this borrowed time that Governor Khan was taking “all sorts of wrong actions such as threatening officials with consequences if they don’t visit him”. “We just have this to tell him, ‘Don’t try to scare us, we have survived bigger scares’,” Govindan said.
(to be updated)