{"id":232032,"date":"2023-03-17T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=232032"},"modified":"2023-03-17T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:20:51","slug":"state-of-head-governors-have-been-seen-as-partisan-for-decades-they-should-be-accountable-to-centre-state-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-head-governors-have-been-seen-as-partisan-for-decades-they-should-be-accountable-to-centre-state-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of Head Governors have been seen as partisan for decades. They should be accountable to Centre, state & Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S<\/strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cState Of Head – Governors have been seen as partisan for decades. They should be accountable to Centre, state & Rajya Sabha\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a017th March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 2: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About friction points between governor and state governments.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Supreme Court has questioned the Maharashtra governor\u2019s rationale in calling for a trust vote that led to the resignation of the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n

What was the issue about?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Governors cannot precipitate the fall of elected governments: Supreme Court<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the various friction points between governor and state governments?<\/h2>\n

-The biggest issues against the governors are they are not giving assent to bills passed by assemblies<\/strong>. In some cases, governors are delaying assent to bills<\/strong> which directly affect governance in the states. For instance, the Telangana government recently moved to SC as their Governor has not signed seven bills and has not cleared the state budget.<\/p>\n

-The SC is hearing a Punjab CM vs governor case. In that, the SC has said that the levels of discourse should not degenerate into a \u201crace to the bottom\u201d.<\/p>\n

-Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Bengal have all protested governors\u2019 using their office in a manner that\u2019s seen as slowing down or meddling in state government function.<\/p>\n

-The other friction point include\u00a0governors\u2019 refusal to convene assembly sessions, and vice-chancellor appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: <\/strong>Issues Related to the Office of Governor \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What should be done to reduce friction points between governor and state governments?<\/h2>\n

Governors have been perceived to be following the Centre\u2019s writ, whichever the party in the Centre. To correct this, governors should be made accountable to not just the Centre but also the state and Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: <\/strong>The Supreme Court\u2019s Judgment on Pardoning Powers of the Governor \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cState Of Head – Governors have been seen as partisan for decades. They should be accountable to Centre, state & Rajya Sabha\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a017th March 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary. Relevance: About friction… Continue reading State Of Head Governors have been seen as partisan for decades. They should be accountable to Centre, state & Rajya Sabha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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-232032","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":"","cached_date":1700660543},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232032","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}