Governor is a symbolic head, has no powers on most matters: P. Chidambaram 

The former Union Home Minister, in a tweet, said that when a Governor withholds assent to a Bill for no valid reason, this signified that Parliamentary democracy was dead; he was reacting to T.N. Governor R.N. Ravi’s statement on Thursday where he said if a Governor withholds assent to a Bill passed by the Assembly, it meant the Bill was dead