New Delhi: A five-member delegation of the Jharkhand government’s state coordination committee (SCC) had to hand over a memorandum for the governor to the security guard at his office after failing to secure an appointment with him.The memorandum urged governor C.P. Radhakrishnan to send observations on three “important bills” that had been returned by the Raj Bhavan, the Telegraph reported.“We had emailed and also given a letter at Raj Bhavan on Friday [September 1] seeking an appointment with the governor on Sunday [September 3]. But there was no one available at the office and we had to hand over the memorandum at the gate,” said Vinod Pandey, an SSC member and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader.“We want to meet the governor and apprise him about the three important bills – 1932 Khatiyan (land survey) based definition of locals bill, the anti-lynching bill and the bill pertaining to raising the reservation quota of OBC communities. All these bills had been returned by the Raj Bhavan without sending the necessary observations of the governor (both former governor Ramesh Bais and incumbent C.P. Radhakrishnan). We want the Raj Bhavan to send the observations so that the necessary corrections can be done and reintroduced in the Assembly and send it again to Raj Bhavan,” he added.The SCC members said the Raj Bhavan has not mentioned the specific objections in the Bills, violating Article 200 of the constitution.The SSC has been formed by the three ruling ally parties in Jharkhand – Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and JMM. It may be noted that Radhakrishnan is a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and has also served as the BJP state president in Tamil Nadu.The panel accused the governor of working at the behest of “a particular party or person”, the New Indian Express (TNIE) reported.“It appears the governor does not want local and reservation policies to be formulated,” Pandey was quoted by the TNIE as saying. They want the governor to clear his stand on the three bills passed by the state Assembly, he added.State Congress chief Rajesh Thakur said this is the first time that leaders of the ruling alliance are not given time by the Raj Bhawan. “However, opposition leaders freely enter the governor’s house and set their agenda,” Thakur was quoted by TNIE as saying.The BillsThe chief minister’s secretariat had in July issued a communique detailing the government’s intent to reintroduce the three bills and their request to the Raj Bhavan secretariat to forward the observations made by the governor, the Telegraph reported.“Bills passed by the Assembly are sent to the Raj Bhavan for the governor’s assent. The copy of the bills consists of the governor’s observations in case the Raj Bhavan consents to them or has some objections. However, in the case of these bills, the governor’s observations are missing. Since the government intends to re-introduce the bills, the governor’s observations have been sought,” the statement read.The Jharkhand Definition for Local Persons and for Extending Consequential, Social, Cultural and Other Benefits to Such Local Persons Bill of 2022 set the land survey settlements of 1932 as the benchmark for identifying the locals of the state. The bill was passed in an extended monsoon session last year, but returned by the then governor Ramesh Bais stating that it violated constitutional provisions.The Jharkhand (Prevention of Violence and Mob Lynching) Bill of 2021, passed in the winter session of 2021, was returned by Bais seeking clarity on the definition of ‘mob’.And the OBC reservation bill, which seeks to increase reservations for OBC communities to 27% from 14% was returned by Radhakrishnan earlier this year after receiving the opinion of the Attorney General of India, the Telegraph reported.The development holds significance as these issues have been at the core of the Jharkhand government’s political narrative besides being electoral promises in the 2019 Assembly polls, the Telegraph report said.