Chennai, Feb 12 (Reporter) After the Governor skipped reading the full text of his customary New Year address to the Tamil Nadu Assembly prepared by the State government on Monday and walked out, the Raj Bhavan said Speaker M.Appavu has lowered the dignity of his chair and the grace of the House prompting Governor R.N.Ravi to leave the House. In a statement outlining the sequence of events that unfolded in the Assembly on the opening day of the session in this New year, the Raj Bhavan said the address prepared by the government and the draft sent to Raj Bhavan on February nine had numerous passages with misleading claims far from truth. The Governor’s address should reflect Government’s achievements, policies and programmes and to inform the house of the “causes of its summons” and should not be a forum for peddling misleading statements and venting blatantly partisan political views. The Government chose to ignore the advice of the Governor in reciting National Anthem beginning and end of his address, despite he writing letters to the Speaker and Chief Minister M.K.Stalin. After reading the first paragraph which contained a Kural (738) of the renowned Saint Thiruvalluvar, the Governor with due regard to the constitutional proprieties expressed his inability to read the address as it contained numerous passages with misleading claims and facts and reading them would have amounted to Governor’s address becoming a constitutional travesty. He expressed his respect to the house, wished the session to be productive for the good of our people of Tamil Nadu and concluded, the statement said. When the Speaker concluded reading the Tamil version of his address, the Governor, who sat fully till Mr Appavu finished reading the speech, rose for the National Anthem, as scheduled, it said. However, the Speaker instead of following the schedule launched a tirade against the Governor and called him a follower of Nathuram Godse and more, it pointed out. "The Hon’ble Speaker with his unbecoming conduct lowered the dignity of his chair and grace of the House", it said. "While the Hon’ble Speaker went on his tirade against the Hon’ble Governor, The Hon’ble Governor with due regard to the dignity of his office and the House left the House", the Raj Bhavan said...////...