India, Jan. 21 -- For a third year in a row, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi declined to read his customary speech prepared by the state government and walked out of the legislative assembly on the opening day of the first session in a re-run of what has become an annual showdown with the DMK-led state government -- and for the same reasons.

The Lok Bhavan listed 12 reasons for the governor walking out. Inside the assembly, chief minister M K Stalin said that his party, the DMK, would take efforts to amend the Constitution to eliminate the practice of the Governor delivering a speech at the beginning of the year. The House also adopted a resolution moved by Stalin to record the English version of the speech as read.

The DMK formed the gove...