Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu , literally "Tamil Country") is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital is Chennai, the largest city. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bound by the Eastern Ghats in the north, the Nilgiri, the Anamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait in the south east, and by the Indian Ocean in the south.

Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state in India by area and the seventh most populous state. It is the second largest state economy in India as of 2012. The state ranked among the top 5 states in India in Human Development Index as of 2006 Tamil Nadu is also the most urbanised state in India. The state has the highest number (10.56%) of business enterprises and stands second in total employment (9.97%) in India, compared to the population share of about 6%.
The region has been the home of the Tamil people since at least 500 BCE. Its official language Tamil has been in use in inscriptions and literature for over 2000 years. Tamil Nadu is home to many natural resources, Hindu temples of Dravidian architecture, hill stations, beach resorts, multi-religious pilgrimage sites and eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

About Governor Ravindra Narayana Ravi born 3 April 1952 is an Indian politician and former bureaucrat serving as the current and 15th Governor of Tamil Nadu. Ravi served as the 18th Governor of Nagaland from 1 August 2019 to 9 September 2021 and Governor of Meghalaya from 18 December 2019 to 26 January 2020.

Ravi was born in Patna, Bihar in a Bhumihar family and completed his Masters in Physics in 1974. After a brief stint in journalism he joined the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in 1976. During his tenure in the Central Bureau of Investigatio Ravi led several anti-corruption crusades against organized criminal gangs including mining mafias. While serving in the Intelligence Bureau Ravi was largely involved in theatres of insurgency and violence in Jammu and Kashmir the North East, and Maoist-affected regions. After retiring from government service in 2012 Ravi wrote regular columns in national newspapers.

Ravi was in 2014 appointed the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor of India on 5 October 2018. He also served as the interlocutor for the talks between NSCN IM and the Government of India from 2014 to 2021

On 9 September 2021 R. N. Ravi was appointed the Governor of Tamil Nadu by President of India Ram Nath Kovind. He took charge as Governor of Tamil Nadu on 18 September 2021. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin greeted Ravi and welcomed him. However his appointment was questioned by Indian National Congress and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi allies to the ruling party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam claiming that there is an ulterior motive in his appointment. The Supreme Court on April 2022 brought into question Ravi action to refer Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict A. G. Perarivalan remission plea to the President, saying such a move strikes at the very roots of the country federal structure Ravi had rejected approval for 19 bills passed by the assembly from September 2021 to April 2022 including the anti-NEET bill. Ravi has been criticised by political analysts in Tamilnadu for interfering in the administration of the government. On May 31 2022 he had 21 bills passed in the Tamil Nadu assembly pending before him. Ravi on January 2023 suggested that Tamilagam would be a more suitable name for Tamil Nadu and mentioned that the ruling political parties have been regressive in the past fifty years. While Ravi remarks were condemned by the DMK the opposition party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and political leaders from Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and CP the state unit of BJP supported Ravi. Students from colleges protested against his remarks in many places all over Tamil Nadu. On January 9 2023 During the governor speech in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Ravi omitted words such as women empowerment, secularism self respect compassion and portions on B. R. Ambedkar and Dravidian leaders from the speech submitted by the Government to the Governor office. It is the convention that the Governor should bound to the prepared speech. M.K. Stalin the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, moved a resolution requesting that the Speaker to relax rule 17 of the state assembly rules to only record the speech prepared by the state administration and strike out any passages that the governor inserted or omitted. The Assembly passed a resolution that only the Governor original speech prepared by the state government and translated by the Speaker would be documented. RN Ravi then walked off from the Assembly in the middle of Chief minister speech on the resolution before the Indian national anthem which was sung moments later.

About Chief Minister

M. K. Stalin Hon'ble Chief Minister

Political Career

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is the chief executive of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In accordance with the Constitution of India the governor is a state de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly the state governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly the chief minister term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. Since 1952 Tamil Nadu has had 12 chief ministers 13 including V. R. Nedunchezhiyan who twice acted in the role. The longest-serving chief minister M. Karunanidhi from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the office for over eighteen years in multiple tenures while he was the one who had the largest gap between two terms . The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's former general secretary J. Jayalalithaa has the second-longest tenure, and its founder M. G. Ramachandran the first actor to become the chief minister in India has the third-longest tenure while his wife V. N. Janaki Ramachandran has the shortest tenure. K. Kamaraj resigned his post of his own free will and devoted all of his energy to the revitalization of the Indian National Congress party; he was responsible for the elevation of Lal Bahadur Shastri to the position of Prime Minister of the Republic of India following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru and of Indira Gandhi following the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. C. Rajagopalachari served as the last Governor-General of the Union of India before becoming chief minister of undivided Madras State. There have been four instances of president's rule in Tamil Nadu, most recently in 1991. The current incumbent is M. K. Stalin of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam since 7 May 2021.