kochi sebastian paul former mp and cpm fellow traveller has appealed to the kerala governor not to sign the ordinance that the state government is proposing to promulgate to avert the possible disqualification of government chief whip p c george mla in a letter addressed to the governor paul has said the ordinance would turn out to be a fraud on the constitution and hold the exalted office of the governor up to mockery paul recalled that the governor had already referred the petition sent earlier by him paul seeking disqualification of george to the election commission of india for its opinion citing that george was holding two offices of profit under the government as an mla and chief whip the commission has started the process of inquiry on the petition and p c george has been called upon to file a written statement on or before november 15 now the government is proposing to promulgate an ordinance to amend the legislative assembly removal of disqualifications act 1951 with retrospective effect to save george after proroguing the state assembly it will be a constitutional impropriety to issue such an ordinance when the process on a petition seeking disqualification under article 192 is in an advanced stage and the election commission of india is about to tender its opinion on it to the governor paul argued he said the chief minister had earlier advised the governor that the post of government chief whip stood protected by sec 21 of the legislative assembly removal of disqualifications act 1951 it was despite this advice that the governor had decided to refer the petition to the eci asked about the reports that the government was planning to promulgate the ordinance to protect the chief whip as well as the leader of the opposition v s achuthanandan from disqualification process paul said that the post of the leader of the opposition did not require such protection as it is not an office of profit under the government as has been defined in disqualification laws