A petition has been filed in the High Court of Bombay challenging the \u201clifetime status of the rank of Cabinet minister\u201d accorded to Pratapsingh Rane, a six-time Chief Minister of Goa and a legislator for a full 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n Government of Goa has decided that <\/span>those who completed 50 years and hold posts like CM and Speaker will be given \u201clifetime status of the rank of Cabinet minister\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n This status was recently given to <\/span>Pratapsingh Rane, a six-time Chief Minister of Goa and a legislator for a full 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n A petition has been filed in the High Court of Bombay to quash the notification of the government.<\/span><\/p>\n The petitioner has argued that Goa has a 12-member Cabinet and the conferment of Cabinet status results in the number of Cabinet ranks rising to 13 which exceeds the ceiling mandated by the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n This ceiling was mandated by the<\/span> 91st Amendment, which aimed to prevent jumbo Cabinets and the resultant drain on the public exchequer.<\/b><\/p>\n The Constitution (91st Amendment) Act, 2003 inserted clause 1A in Article 164.<\/span><\/p>\n It says the total number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, in the Council of Ministers in a State shall not exceed 15% of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly of that State.<\/span><\/p>\n It provided a condition that the number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister in a State, shall not be less than twelve.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on an article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Explained: The PIL against the lifetime status of \u2018Cabinet minister\u2019 to Goa\u2019s Pratapsingh Rane<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express<\/b> on<\/span> 28th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A petition has been filed in the High Court of Bombay challenging the \u201clifetime status of the rank of Cabinet minister\u201d accorded to Pratapsingh Rane, a six-time Chief Minister of Goa and a legislator for a full 50 years. What is the \u201cLifetime Status of the rank of Cabinet Minister\u201d? Government… Continue reading Explained: The PIL against the lifetime status of \u2018Cabinet minister\u2019 to Goa\u2019s Pratapsingh Rane<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-181725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the \u201cLifetime Status of the rank of Cabinet Minister\u201d?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the issue with this status?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What does the 91st amendment say on this?<\/b><\/h5>\n