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Leader of the Opposition successful Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan has accused Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar of violating law conventions by straight holding a gathering with authorities Secretaries regarding events related to the observance of International Yoga Day.
“The Governor’s work is to enactment connected the assistance and proposal of the Cabinet. It is anti-constitutional for the Governor to go a parallel powerfulness centre. The Chief Minister has inactive not reacted to this. There is simply a wide cognition that the authorities is surrendering to the Sangh Parivar. It appears that the Governor is making usage of this situation. In 2024, erstwhile the Governor directed the Chief Secretary and the State Police Chief to look for a meeting, the State authorities had taken a basal against it,” helium said connected Thursday (June 18, 2026).
CMO's statement
Later successful the evening, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) issued a connection arsenic per which the Governor’s Secretary officially informed the Chief Secretary that the officials were not called for a peculiar gathering and that lone connection regarding the yoga time took place.
“The Chief Secretary has besides written to Lok Bhavan expressing the government’s dissatisfaction with the holding of specified a meeting. Meetings oregon reappraisal meetings related to officials are portion of the enforcement functions of the government. The Chief Secretary besides asked successful his missive to Lok Bhavan to instrumentality peculiar attraction to forestall specified incidents from recurring,” said the statement.
