Chennai, Feb. 12 -- For the second successive year, Tamil Nadu Governor R.N.Ravi skipped
reading out the full text of his customary New Year address, prepared by the State government,
on the opening day of the Legislative Assembly session on Monday, before staging a walk out
without waiting for the recital of National Anthem after the government chose to move a resolution
seeking to retain the address prepared by it and distributed to the members, in the Assembly records.
Unlike last year, when the Governor read out a majority portion of the speech prepared by the government and skipped a few points towards the fag end of his address and deviated from it and staged a walk out, this year, the Governor spoke for just two minutes before co...