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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Monday signed the Ordinance to amend a provision within the Lok Ayukta Act. The Governor’s assent got here an afternoon after Leader Minister Pinarayi Vijayan known as on him on the Raj Bhavan and defined the instances below which the federal government got here out with an Ordinance to amend Segment 14 of the Kerala Lok Ayukta Act, 1999.
Segment 14 of the Act empowers the Lok Ayukta to take away a corrupt public respectable from place of job and deter her or him from
maintaining the publish once more. The federal government is of view that the availability is ‘constitutionally untenable’ and must be amended. The Opposition has accused the federal government of looking to weaken the Lok Ayukta throughout the Ordinance.
The Opposition had met the Governor and advised him to not give assent to the Ordinance. The Governor on his section selected to defer his resolution on signing the Ordiance until the Leader Minister returns from in a foreign country. Throughout the assembly on the Raj Bhavan on Sunday, Pinarayi instructed the Governor that the federal government has won prison opinion that it will pass forward with the modification and sought his
assent to the Ordinance.
