Refusing assent for holding the state Assembly speaker’s election in the just concluded winter session of the state legislature, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari said that the letter that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray wrote to him had an intemperate tone and threatening tenor, which has belittled and denigrated the highest Constitutional office of the state.

After receiving the governor’s final refusal, the government, on Tuesday, postponed the election. The governor had earlier objected to the proposed changes to the election process, saying that he needed to examine the legal validity of the amendment that appeared to be unconstitutional. The MVA partners accused the governor of toeing the BJP’s line.