Refusing to toe his party's line, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Wednesday said Governor R S Gavai's nod to CBI to prosecute CPI-M state Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the graft case did not come as a shock.
Declining to term Gavai's action as a "serious breach of Constitutional norms" as dubbed by his party and some of his ministerial colleagues, Achuthanandan said he was not "shocked or surprised" by the Governor's decision as there had been similar precedents in the country.
"There have been precedents of governors having taken decisions like this using their discretionary powers after studying the matters under their consideration," he told reporters after a Cabinet meeting here.
"I don't consider this as a great surprise.There have also been references made by the Supreme Court in similar situations," he said to a specific query if he thought the Governor had violated Constitutional norms as alleged by his party leaders in the state.
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