{"id":222377,"date":"2023-01-13T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222377"},"modified":"2023-01-13T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:24:00","slug":"remove-raj-from-raj-bhawans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/remove-raj-from-raj-bhawans\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Raj From Raj Bhawans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cRemove Raj From Raj Bhawans<\/strong>\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a013th<\/sup> January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong>Indian Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>issue associated with the Governor<\/strong><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The article discusses the changing role of the Governor from the British period to the recent times.<\/p>\n

What were the roles of the Governor of the British era?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Governors of British provinces could overrule elected ministers, make laws and ordinances, restrict proceedings in the legislatures, dismiss a minister, or even dismiss the entire government and take back the reins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They could withhold assent to any legislation according to their will. In appointing ministers, the governor could choose representatives from any community he wanted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, this changed after the adoption of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

What changes were brought in the role of Governors by the Constitution?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Governors were made nominal heads of state,<\/strong> with the powers of appointing ministers, summoning the legislature, assenting to Bills, and calling for President\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n

However, with time, governors became a medium through which the Union could interfere in state politics. For example<\/strong>, misuse of the President’s rule.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court in 1994 said<\/strong> that issues of forming a government had to be settled through votes of confidence in the state legislature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, even here the governor could influence the outcome of the vote by deciding which party would get the first chance to prove its majority.<\/p>\n

Governors have an important role to play in handling political crises and cautioning elected governments while remaining non-aligned with any political party.<\/p>\n

However, this has not been the case as it is evident from the tussle between Tami Nadu government and the Governor, Delhi government and the L-G, etc.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Bad and ugly – A Governor\u2019s departure from convention has set off unsavoury events <\/a><\/p>\n

What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The appointment and removal process of the governor<\/strong> should change. Today, the Union government enjoys this power which ultimately misuses it.<\/p>\n

Therefore, a new system should be brought<\/strong> for the appointment and removal of the Governor. Governors should also be made accountable<\/strong> to the Union, the state and the Rajya Sabha through their appointments and removals.<\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cRemove Raj From Raj Bhawans\u201d published in The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a013th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Indian Polity Relevance: issue associated with the Governor News: The article discusses the changing role of the Governor from the British period to the recent times. What were the roles of… Continue reading Remove Raj From Raj Bhawans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-222377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700811111,"cached_date":1704385738},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222377","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}